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| Moscow blames Paris for deaths of French mercenaries in Ukraine | Moscow blames Paris for deaths of French mercenaries in Ukraine |
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| France has been ignoring the recruitment of its nationals to fight in the Ukraine conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said | France has been ignoring the recruitment of its nationals to fight in the Ukraine conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said |
| The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned French Ambassador Pierre Levy in the aftermath of the deadly missile strike on Ukraine’s city of Kharkov, raising concerns over Paris’ “growing involvement” in the Ukrainian conflict. According to the Russian military, the strike conducted earlier this week killed more than 60 foreign mercenaries, predominantly French nationals. | The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned French Ambassador Pierre Levy in the aftermath of the deadly missile strike on Ukraine’s city of Kharkov, raising concerns over Paris’ “growing involvement” in the Ukrainian conflict. According to the Russian military, the strike conducted earlier this week killed more than 60 foreign mercenaries, predominantly French nationals. |
| Officials told the envoy that Paris itself was to blame for the mass casualties among the French nationals, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Friday. | |
| France has long turned a blind eye to active work of recruitment agencies in the country, hiring mercenaries to fight on the Ukrainian side in the conflict, she added. | France has long turned a blind eye to active work of recruitment agencies in the country, hiring mercenaries to fight on the Ukrainian side in the conflict, she added. |
| “Waging the ‘proxy war’ by the West, including France, the steady growth in weapons and military hardware supply to the Zelensky regime contradict statements about the importance of establishing peace, escalate hostilities, lead to numerous civilian casualties, and turn it into an accomplice to the war crimes of the Kiev government,” Zakharova stated. | “Waging the ‘proxy war’ by the West, including France, the steady growth in weapons and military hardware supply to the Zelensky regime contradict statements about the importance of establishing peace, escalate hostilities, lead to numerous civilian casualties, and turn it into an accomplice to the war crimes of the Kiev government,” Zakharova stated. |
| The mass casualties on mercenaries were inflicted on Tuesday evening when the Russian military targeted a “temporary assembly point of foreign fighters.” The strike killed over 60 foreign fighters and injured more than 20 others, with the majority of them said to be “French mercenaries.” | |
| The Russian military’s account of the events has been disputed by the Ukrainian side, which made multiple conflicting statements on the incident. Regional police claimed the destroyed site was a residential building, while local authorities insisted it actually was an abandoned hospital. |