France deploys the aircraft carrier “Charles-de-Gaulle” to “deter” an attack on the eastern flank of NATO

Purpose to display: “observe and deter”. Guest of BFMTV on Thursday March 3, the Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly announced that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, hitherto used for the fight against terrorism from Cyprus, had moved to the Mediterranean to be closer to Romania. The General Staff of the Armed Forces immediately published a video to illustrate this decision.

#CLEMENCEAU 22 | Carrier Strike Group Participation @French_CSG strengthening the defensive and dissuasive posture of the@NATO in #EUROPE from the east.
Mission: participate in the surveillance and air defense system of the eastern flank of the Alliance. #StrategicSolidarity pic.twitter.com/0Tx2TPXKqk

– French Army – Military Operations (@EtatMajorFR) March 3, 2022

A week after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the minister indicated that the planes that will take off from the building will fly “due north towards the territory of Romania, where there they will have the ability to observe and deter”. “As of February 24, we sent fighter planes and their tanker from France, precisely to operate these protection missions for the benefit of the Baltic States”recalled Florence Parly.

“We want to send a dissuasive message vis-à-vis Russia so that Russia does not take another step and that Russia does not take it into its head to cross this limit which is the Atlantic Alliance; we are countries that are bound by a pact of solidarity and Russia knows that if one of us were attacked, then the whole Alliance would retaliate”had earlier warned the minister at the microphone of franceinfo.

Florence Parly will travel to Romania on Sunday to meet the soldiers sent by France. “We have deployed them because we owe assistance and solidarity to countries which belong to the European Union, which belong to the Atlantic Alliance and which are closest to this conflict”she added.