A series of classified documents likely prompted French President Macron’s recent remarks about sending Western troops to fight in Ukraine. Three French military assessments had highlighted Ukraine’s dire situation in the conflict, according to the French magazine Marianne. The French military reports on the Russia-Ukraine war said Kyiv had wrecked its Western-trained force in the failed 2023 offensive. The reports said Kyiv had run out of men to mobilise, and its recent loss in Avdiivka shows it can’t even hold the line against Russia.