What we reported two days ago that the killed French soldiers were not in fact mercenaries was just confirmed by Moscow.
Moscow last night summoned the French ambassador to the foreign ministry for an explanation regarding the unprecedented number of dead French soldiers in Kharkiv. The meeting lasted around 45 minutes, the French Ambassador apparently said nothing.
Moscow through its sources has confirmation that these are soldiers of the regular French Army, officers, special forces, advisers, etc., who were sent on behalf of the French government. This also explains their large number in a specific location in Kharkiv and not on the front lines of the war.
Yesterday, Moscow announced that Russian forces had carried out a precision strike on a building housing “foreign fighters” in Kharkiv. The Russian Defense Ministry said the fighters were mainly French mercenaries and the building was destroyed.
“In connection with the destruction by the Russian armed forces of a temporary point of deployment of foreign fighters in Kharkiv, among which were dozens of Frenchmen, the French ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs” , said the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.
Earlier today, Paris refuted these Russian claims about the presence of French mercenaries in Ukraine.
“France is helping Ukraine with supplies of military equipment and military training, in full compliance with international law, in order to help Ukraine in its battle to defend its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, ” the French Foreign Ministry said.
“France has no mercenaries, neither in Ukraine nor anywhere else, unlike some others ,” he added. The French appear to be right here, indeed these were not mercs, but their regular army.
We have reported repeatedly that since 2022, the UK, USA, France, Canada, Poland, Germany have together around 12-15,000 soldiers directly engaged in Ukraine. A large portion of them have already died, while the high ranking officers, like the French who got wiped out two days ago in a Kharkiv Hotel are very much responsible for coordinating SCALP attacks on Russian soil, and creating the defensive and offensive plans for Kiev.
Poland’s army has fared by far the worst among the lot, they have lost over 6,000 regular troops early on into the conflict, it also explains their nonstop anti-Russia hysterics. Uncle Sam has lost at least 50 CIA officers, recall the Moscow bombing (twice) of SBU buildings in Kiev. However the new rules of modern warfare is you don’t discuss your losses. NATO has and continue to have losses in Ukraine.