The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is lying at anchor off the Greek port of Piraeus, Greek media reported on Thursday. Photographs show the carrier accompanied by French and Greek escort ships in Faliro Bay near the port. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Charles de Gaulle has been on patrol in the Aegean and Ionian seas to the east and west respectively of the Peloponnese Peninsula, with its aircraft flying reconnaissance missions along NATO’s eastern flank from the Black Sea off the Ukrainian coast to the Baltic Sea in the north. The carrier and its escorts w…