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According to the TASS agency, Lévy’s visit to the Russian ministry’s headquarters lasted about three quarters of an hour. Afterwards, the ambassador, who also served as the French ambassador to Prague, left the country without making a statement to the media.
But later the TASS agency reported the position that Russian diplomacy had communicated to Lévy. According to him, “Russia hopes that the general French public will finally receive truthful information about the true extent of France’s involvement in the conflict and understand its responsibility for the death and suffering of an ever-increasing number of people.”
More than six dozen foreign fighters were killed in an airstrike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, on Tuesday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Moscow said they were mostly French.
Photo: Stringer, Reuters
Consequences of the Russian drone attack in Kharkiv (January 2024)
But Paris denied Russian claims about the fighters. “France supports Ukraine with military equipment and military training, in full compliance with international law, to support Ukraine in its struggle to defend its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity,” the French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that in addition to the dead, another 20 fighters were injured and that the building where they were staying was in ruins. Moscow did not provide concrete evidence for its statements, Reuters noted.
Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Reuters
Injured woman in front of the affected hotel in Kharkiv (January 2024)
In this context, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said that the Russian attacks hit a part of the city where there was no military infrastructure.
The Russians blew up the museum colossus. The Ukrainians write that they shot down a P-35 Progress missile from the 1960s
Oleh Synehubov, the head of the Kharkiv region administration, said on Wednesday that the Russians attacked Kharkiv late Tuesday evening with S-300 missiles. The Russian army also uses these anti-aircraft missiles against ground targets. In Kharkiv he does this quite often.
According to Syněhubov, 17 civilians were injured in Tuesday’s shelling, namely 16 women between the ages of 38 and 90 and a 31-year-old man.
Russia shelled Kharkiv, hitting a hotel
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