{"id":185961,"date":"2025-09-12T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/putins-french-soldiers-a-lot-of-noise-over-a-handful-of-fighters\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:22:02","slug":"putins-french-soldiers-a-lot-of-noise-over-a-handful-of-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/putins-french-soldiers-a-lot-of-noise-over-a-handful-of-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s French soldiers: A lot of noise over a handful of fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in April that there were French soldiers fighting for Russia on the Ukrainian frontlines in a unit dubbed \u00ab\u00a0Normandie-Niemen\u00a0\u00bb. Our investigation showed these fighters are, in fact, just a handful of individuals whose presence is amplified by pro-Russian propaganda in a war that is as much about images as it is about words.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in April that there were French soldiers fighting for Russia on the Ukrainian frontlines in a unit dubbed \u00ab\u00a0Normandie-Niemen\u00a0\u00bb. Our investigation showed these fighters are, in fact, just a handful of individuals whose presence is amplified by pro-Russian propaganda in a war that is as much about images as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-185961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}