“Our ambassador in Moscow was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on this issue.
This is a way to periodically put pressure on European states,” TASS quotes him as saying.
The minister also announced a number of statements by French President Emmanuel Macron regarding assistance to Ukraine during the French leader's planned visit to Kyiv in February.
Earlier, French Ambassador Pierre Levy, who was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on January 19, was told that the death of French mercenaries in Kharkov lies on the conscience of Paris, which condones the work in France of mechanisms for sending mercenaries to Ukraine.
Prior to this, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops carried out a high-precision strike on the temporary deployment point of foreign fighters in Kharkov, the bulk of whom were represented by French mercenaries.
The head of the French Ministry of Defense, Sebastien Lecornu, in an interview with LCI TV channel, said that France cannot prohibit citizens from fighting on the territory of Ukraine.