The country’s Foreign Ministry claims that there are no mercenaries in Ukraine, either in Ukraine or anywhere else.
The French authorities have denied the Russian Federation’s statement that during the recent strike on Kharkov, dozens of “French mercenaries” fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed there.
“France does not have mercenaries in Ukraine or anywhere else, unlike some,” the French Foreign Ministry said.
They called Russia’s allegations “gross manipulation.”
“This does not deserve more attention than previous or future attempts at manipulation, which will certainly still take place,” the French Foreign Ministry noted.
At the same time, French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecornu said that the French are fighting in Ukraine.
According to him, “there are French civilians who went to fight in Ukraine in Ukrainian military uniform.”
“We cannot ban them, we are still a democracy. By definition, these people have no connection with the French armed forces, do not have French military uniforms and are not associated with French military institutions,” said the head of the French defense department.
As you know, the French Ambassador to Moscow Pierre Levy was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, repeated the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the destruction in Kharkov of a “temporary deployment point for foreign fighters,” among whom “were several dozen French.”
French assistance to Ukraine – latest news
France should produce more weapons for Ukraine. This was stated by the country’s President Emmanuel Macron. He called on the country’s defense industry to ramp up production as Europe scrambles to increase arms supplies to support Ukraine.
previously reported that during the World Economic Forum in Davos, French President Emmanuel Macron called for preventing Russia from winning over Ukraine.
