Scores of French mercenaries have been killed in Kharkiv, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. Over 60 foreign fighters – soldiers of misfortune – in Ukrainian service, most of them French, have been eliminated in a precision strike on a building in Kharkiv, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

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Kharkiv is a major Ukrainian military stronghold in the east and has been the launching pad for rocket attacks on Russian territory, including the December 30 massacre in Belgorod that killed 25 and injured more than 100.

‘On the evening of January 16, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a high-precision strike on the temporary assembly point of foreign fighters in the city of Kharkiv, the majority of whom were French mercenaries,’ the ministry said. 

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‘As a result of the strike, the building in which the mercenaries were stationed was completely destroyed. More than 60 militants were killed, [while] over 20 were taken to hospitals,’ the Russian military added.

The strike came on the same day that French President Emmanuel Macron announced Paris could not allow Russia to win and pledged to send 40 SCALP cruise missiles and hundreds of bombs to Kyiv.

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Ukrainian authorities initially claimed that two missiles had struck an inactive hospital, injuring nine people. Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Sinegubov later said that 17 people had been wounded, two of them seriously.

The mercenaries killed in Kharkiv could have been part of a secret operation of French intelligence and the army, ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson suggested in a conversation with RT.

Johnson noted that this was nothing new: the French, British and Americans were involved in the conflict from the very beginning. Over the past two years, France has made no effort to put an end to this, he stressed.

‘I think there’s more to it than just the desire to make money. I have serious suspicions that such many mercenaries, and especially in such a concentration, indicate some kind of covert operation carried out by French intelligence and the French armed forces in an attempt to provide assistance to Ukraine and make up for what Kyiv no longer has or has in insufficient quantities.

On January 19, the French Ambassador to Russia Pierre Levy arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was summoned in connection with the destruction of French mercenaries in Kharkiv. He left the Foreign Ministry building without comment.

According to independent journalist Luc Rive, if the West continues to send mercenaries to Ukraine, the world risks approaching a third world war. According to political and strategic analyst Xavier Moreau, the French mercenaries could be members of the Foreign Legion.

Thousands of foreign fighters flocked to Ukraine at the start of hostilities with Russia in 2022, only to quickly become disillusioned by the realities of modern war.

The most recent estimate of their number was in July when the Russian Defense Ministry said only 2,000 mercenaries remained in Ukraine. Of the original 11,000, some 5,000 left because they were unhappy with their treatment, while others became casualties, Moscow said at the time. You can share this story on social media:

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