I'm seeing posts about #French and #Ukrainian intelligences services running false information through the #US, which ended up in Russia, as proof that the US (read: Trump regime) cannot be trusted with intel.

TL;DR: The source referenced for the story about an intentional false information op, does not, to the best of my understanding, talk about a false information op. That spin on the story could be intentional disinformation.

EDIT: from the responses: "actually no, he says that the ua sent info to the US, which ended up in the Russia, thus leading to stronger relations [with] France." h/t @nicolas

EDIT: Based on further info (h/t @VoxClamans) I pulled it through online translation, and started digging deep into my high-school French. Combined with some intense googling ("d'une fuite"?! "From a leak"), I came up with the following translation:

Crouzet: "So, when did this divorce [between Ukrainian and American Intelligence] begin? Obviously, it began on February 28th, 2025, since the famous Oval Office sequence [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tru…], which implies a breakdown of trust between Ukrainian and American intelligence has occurred."

Crouzet: "At the time the two Ukrainians responsible for intelligence, Vasyl Malyuk for the SBU and Kyrylo Boudanov for the GUR representing Ukrainian military intelligence, decided to no longer share the valuable intelligence they possessed with their American partners, including information leaked to Moscow."

Host: "Incredible!"

Crouzet: "It speaks volumes about the depth of the distrust between the intelligence services. So, little by little, we [France] have taken over, so to speak, the role of espionage in Ukraine."

I'm still not sure about whether it is "fearing it would go to Russia" (an interpretation) or "leaked to Russia" (established fact) part though.

Before this segment Crouzet also suggests that if 2/3th of the intel is now provide by France (following the statement by Macron: reuters.com/business/aerospace…), the other European partners (including UK) are providing the rest.

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These posts seems to all originate from a bunch of X/threads post reverencing a part of a French news talk show:

tf1info.fr/replay-lci/videos/v….

According to the screenshots, the part referenced starts from 1:39:23, with Vincent Crouzet, a former operative of the French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) supposedly claiming this op had taken place.

My #French, certainly outside ordering basic food stuffs and trying to get directions, is somewhere between rusty and non-existent.

Could someone who is better at this tell us if that's actually what's being said by Crouzet?

One possibly reputable Ukrainian news source disputes the news, saying it got from a reliable source that it is disinformation by Kremlin troll farms:

unn.ua/en/news/did-ukraine-all…

#infosec #intelligence #Russia #France #Ukraine #US #disinformation