Paris summons the Russian ambassador after an "inappropriate and provocative" tweet
On Thursday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian again summoned the Russian ambassador to Paris, after the embassy published a tweet that the minister considered "inappropriate" about the atrocities in Ukraine's Bucha.
"In exchange for the inappropriate and provocative tweet (published by) the Russian embassy in France regarding the atrocities committed in Bucha, I have decided to summon the Russian ambassador, Alexei Meshkov, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this morning," the minister wrote on Twitter.
The ministry published a tweet and then deleted it, which included the phrase “filming location” and was attached to a picture showing a crowd of journalists in what appears to be a street in Bucha, indicating that the massacres in this city were staged.
According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova, the bodies of 410 civilians were found in Bucha and other lands in the Kyiv region recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces from Russian forces.
For its part, Moscow denied killing civilians in Bucha. The Kremlin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke of "fraud" and "fabrication" on the part of Ukraine and the press.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova considered that Western media were "complicit" in this "forgery" and accused the Ukrainian side of either executing civilians in this city or transporting bodies for fabrication purposes.
On March 25, the French Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador after the embassy published on its Twitter account a cartoon offensive to Europeans.
Like other European countries, France announced on Monday the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats whose activities were deemed to be
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