What official statements have France, Ukraine, and the U.S. intelligence community issued about alleged intelligence stings or deliberate falsification since 2024?

1. France’s formal posture: stepping forward as Kyiv’s lead intelligence provider

President Emmanuel Macron has publicly declared that France now supplies "two‑thirds" of the intelligence Kyiv receives from partners, an explicit repositioning of Paris as the principal Western intelligence backer for Ukraine that signals confidence in French channels and, implicitly, concern about the reliability of other partners—Reuters quoted Macron’s remarks on Jan. 15, 2026 ^[1], a claim repeated across outlets including the Kyiv Independent and Defence Matters ^{[4] [5]}.

2. French commentary and allegation: a former DGSE agent’s claim of a Ukrainian sting

A former French DGSE operative, Vincent Crouzet, publicly alleged that Ukrainian services deliberately fed distorted intelligence to U.S. counterparts as a sting to identify Kremlin leaks, an assertion aired on French television and reported in commentary pieces ^[2]; that claim is presented in commentary and social posts but in the reporting provided it remains an allegation from a former operative rather than an official French government declaration ^[2].

3. Ukraine’s rebuttal and media corrections: rejecting Kremlin‑fed distortions

Ukraine’s military intelligence (GUR) and Ukrainian news services have explicitly rejected and characterized some narratives about distorted Ukrainian‑supplied intelligence as disinformation, with UNN flagging that distorted versions of the French TV story were being spread on social media and that GUR has pushed back against Kremlin bot‑farm amplifications ^[3]; reporting also notes Kyiv institutions and some officials have not confirmed Crouzet’s claims when asked ^{[6] [7]}.

4. The U.S. intelligence community: what the record in these sources does and does not show

The assembled reporting documents policy shifts—Washington’s suspension of some intelligence sharing with Kyiv in March 2025 is noted as context for changing partnerships ^[1]—but does not contain a sourced, public statement from the U.S. intelligence community that affirms or denies a Ukrainian‑led sting or intentional falsification campaign; outlets attempting follow‑up reported that Élysée, the French defense ministry, GUR and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment, underscoring an absence of official confirmation in the cited material ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Reading the signals: motives, agendas and evidentiary gaps

Officially published repositioning—Macron’s statement about France’s intelligence role—serves a clear geopolitical narrative of Paris assuming greater responsibility for Kyiv and distancing Ukraine from overreliance on the U.S. ^[1]; by contrast, the explosive sting allegation comes from a former intelligence commentator and has been propagated in formats (television commentary, social media) that Kremlin disinformation networks have reportedly amplified, a dynamic Ukrainian sources explicitly warn about ^{[2] [3]}, and there is no corroborating, on‑the‑record admission in the provided reporting from U.S. agencies or French ministries ^{[6] [7]}.

6. Bottom line: claims exist; authoritative confirmations do not—in these sources

The reporting shows Macron’s public claim of France supplying most of Ukraine’s partner intelligence ^[1], a high‑profile allegation by a former DGSE figure that Ukraine staged a sting on U.S. intel ^[2], and Ukrainian counters that the narrative has been distorted by Kremlin amplifiers ^[3], but within the set of sources provided there are no formal, documented statements from the U.S. intelligence community confirming that a deliberate falsification or sting occurred, nor any official French ministry confirmation of Crouzet’s specific allegation ^{[6] [7]}; the public record in this sample therefore reflects competing claims, institutional silence or non‑response, and active efforts by Ukrainian authorities to label parts of the story as fake.