French Troops in Ukraine to Be Viewed as Legitimate Targets, Moscow Warns

Published on May 8, 2024

If French troops are sent to Ukraine, they will be regarded by Moscow as legitimate military targets, Russia’s foreign ministry has warned. “If the French appear in the conflict zone, they will inevitably become targets for the Russian armed forces,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on May 8. Speaking to reporters, she added: “Paris already knows this.” In January, Russia claimed to have carried out a precision strike on a facility housing “foreign fighters” in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Russia’s defense ministry later asserted, without providing evidence, that 60 “French mercenaries” had been killed in the strike. At the time, Paris rejected the allegation, with France’s foreign ministry claiming that France “has no mercenaries in Ukraine or anywhere else.”...

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