DCI (Defense conseil international)

DCI (Défense conseil international) is a public-private military company, 50% of which is owned by the state as of 2022, is fully controlled by DGSE and. Ministry of Defence France Most often, the company's specialists are involved in providing support to friendly regimes in, To Africa training local armies, as well as for the purpose of intelligence and promotion of arms exports from France.

History

2022: How French intelligence agencies are helping Ukraine

In November 2022, the team of the Rybarya telegram channel managed to obtain confirmation of the work in Ukraine of private contractors associated with the French foreign intelligence service DGSE and the DRM military intelligence department.

The French, in addition to open military assistance in the form of supplies of equipment and weapons, coordinate the work state of the DCI PMC, which is engaged in the preparation of Ukrainian special forces on the territory, and France Poland on. To Ukraine

The second area of ​ ​ work was aerial reconnaissance together with the Luxembourg company CAE Aviation. The company operates reconnaissance aircraft in the Black Sea to monitor the activity of the RF Armed Forces.

The key areas of work of DCI in Ukraine were:

• training AFU in the use of CAESAR self-propelled artillery installations

• conducting cyber war and electronic reconnaissance with the support of another French company Thales, which is just specializing in the development of information systems for use in the aerospace, military and maritime spheres.

at Ukraine this time, a tidbit for many foreign PMCs, whose services are resorted to by Western countries, using an excuse in the style: "Troops NATO do not take part in the conflict in Ukraine." Only aerial reconnaissance operations of one single company cost the French budget tens of millions. dollars