French authorities are calling for the EU to quickly identify mobility corridors for the military and to set up a coordinating authority to ensure troops and equipment from across the bloc can quickly move east if a larger conflict breaks out.
"The war of aggression being waged by Russia on European territory, on Ukrainian territory, makes it likely I would say, that our forces will be heavily engaged on European territory on our continent," Air Force Brigadier General Fabrice Feola, who commands the French military's Operations and Transport Support Centre, told reporters on Thursday morning.
