In Ukraine, an investigation opened after the chaotic entry into war of the “Anne of kyiv” brigade formed by France – Libération

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Lack of equipment, poorly trained soldiers, very high losses… The 155th mechanized brigade had a complicated start, opening a debate on the advisability of forming entirely new teams or reinforcing the most experienced ones.

The Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk was called Krasnoarmeysk until 2015, from the imposed Soviet name, meaning “Red Army”. It was renamed following the Maidan Revolution. In January 2025, the Russian army, which still calls it by its old name, besieged the “Red Army”. A compact industrial and mining town of more than 60,000 inhabitants, whose surroundings became the deathbed of several hundred Ukrainian soldiers of the 155th mechanized brigade “Anne de Kyiv”: a new entity of the Ukrainian army, trained in France , which bears the name of a princess of the Rus’ of kyiv (eastern Slavic principality from the 9th to the 13th century), who became queen of France in 1051, and who rests in Senlis (Oise), far from his native lands.

At the end of December 2024, two and a half months after President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to these soldiers training in the great east of France, the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation opened a criminal investigation into the circumstances of the end of training and combat. this famous brigade on the central axis