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War in Ukraine: What do we know about the French “mercenaries” Russia claims to have killed?

The losses will be especially heavy. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday it had attacked a building housing “French mercenaries” in Kharkov, northeastern Ukraine. The shot would have completely destroyed this “temporary deployment point for foreign fighters” and would have left “at least 60 dead and 20 wounded,” they say in Moscow. Kharkiv authorities deplored the strikes in the city on Tuesday night, but they reportedly struck homes and injured civilians.

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As of Wednesday evening, Xavier Titelman, a former military pilot who was in contact with several French fighters on the spot, assured that no damage should be regretted and that there was no special concentration of our fellow citizens in Kharkov. This is “gross disinformation: for months now not a single Frenchman has died,” Colonel Michel Goya, a former naval officer, said this Thursday. The clue will confirm the disinformation, pure and simple: “The transmitters of these news – websites, platforms, social media accounts – are entities known to be backed by the intelligence services or the Russian army,” notes Kevin Limonier, chief lecturer at the French University. Institute of Geopolitics and specialist in Russian cyberspace.

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Source: Le Parisien

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