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Cătălin Roșioru

ADVERTISEMENT A "certain number" of Ukrainian soldiers have deserted the unit being trained in France, French media outlets reported, referring to army officials. The desertions remain "very marginal" compared to the number of those trained in the Western European country, they added. The unit in question is the 155th "Anne of Kyiv" Mechanised Brigade, named after a Kyiv-born princess who married French King Henri I in the 11th century. The French army trained some 2,300 soldiers from this