French soldiers operate a Caesar self-propelled howitzer during a high-intensity shooting exercise in Canjuers, southeastern France. 18 already delivered, would be financed from a 200-million-euro ($217-million) fund France set up to fund arms for Kyiv, Lecornu said in a joint Paris press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov. France was by early December the 7th-largest supporter of Ukraine since the war broke out, according to data on military and financial aid collated by the Germany-based Institute for the World Economy think-tank — not yet taking into account major announcements of military equipment last month