France to deploy two frigates to Red Sea, Macron says

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will send two frigates as part of the European Union’s naval mission “Aspides” in the Red Sea, Al Jazeera reports.

“We are in the process of setting up a purely defensive, purely escort ⁠mission, which must ⁠be prepared together with both European and non-European ⁠states,” Macron said ⁠after meeting with ⁠Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos ‌Mitsotakis in Cyprus.

By Khagan Isayev