France Ukraine gave Trump fake intel to leak to Putin false

On Jan. 15, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron said France was now providing two-thirds of Ukraine's intelligence. Shortly after, a rumor gained traction that Ukraine relied so heavily on French intelligence because Ukraine had allegedly ...

According to information obtained by Le Monde, the campaign is believed to have originated from "Storm-1516," the nickname for a Russian propaganda group that has been highly active in France since 2025, seeking to discredit Ukraine among the French public through fake news sites. Nevertheless, this rumor went largely unnoticed. The reason: In January, France was preoccupied with multiple fabrications coming from Donald Trump.

Doing its best to be funny, it has since September been battling information it deems to be false from Russian and US accounts -- but also the White House under President Donald Trump. French foreign ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux said information had become "a new battleground". "We're choosing to occupy the space by turning up the volume and raising our voice," he said of the X account, which now counts 100,000 followers -- though still a drop in the ocean compared to X owner Elon Musk's more than 230 million.

France and Ukraine fed Trump false intelligence to test whether he would leak it to Putin—and he did.

In brief: Kyiv has rejected claims by former French operative Vincent Crouzet, saying there is no evidence to support his suggestion that Ukraine fed fake intelligence to the US to test leaks to Moscow. by Leo Chiu, Kateryna Zakharchenko | Jan.

Available, sourced reporting permits ... to test leak behavior — there is, according to Kyiv, Snopes, and other fact‑checks, no public evidence showing such an operation took place [2] [3] [4] [5]....

Executive summary There is no reliable, independently verified evidence that Ukraine and France deliberately fed false classified intelligence to the Tru...

A claim circulating in January ... French DGSE operative’s public remarks and has been widely amplified online, but it has not been independently corroborated by public evidence [1] [2]. Major outlets and fact-checkers have treated the story as unproven or part of a ...

Interesting how France and Ukraine allegedly fed Trump false intelligence to test whether he would leak it to Putin—and it was.