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Russia confident warship deal with France will proceed
With Russia accused of sending troops into eastern Ukraine, France had little choice, according to Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform in London.
“I’m sure that pressure from other NATO members will have had some influence on the French, but I think also that domestically there had been stories that, even among the people who were building these ships, there was some concern about what they were really doing and why they were supplying ships to Russia in these circumstances,” he said.