FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, center left, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali on May 19, 2017. High-stakes legislative elections this Sunday will almost certainly impact the French leader's sway in the fields of defense and foreign affairs, quite possibly diminishing his role as an energetic and influential figure in European and world affairs and as one of Ukraine's primary backers in the war against Russia, say retired French military officers and analysts of France's defense and foreign policies. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP, File)