“A professional minister, and simply a caring person, would not have invented anything about “Russian manipulation” and denied reality, but had obtained all the information about French citizens.
Or has the French government finally distanced itself from its people?”
- the diplomat said in a statement on Telegram.
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.
French volunteers from the SOS Donbass organization provided RIA Novosti with the data of 13 French mercenaries who were in Kharkov during the strike by the Russian Armed Forces.
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.