Paris should not shy away from taking responsibility for prolonging the conflict, Moscow has said
Paris should not talk about the need for dialog on the Ukraine conflict while at the same time providing increasingly heavier weapons to Kiev, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has suggested. She was commenting on the French decision to supply light tanks to Ukraine.
The move was not particularly surprising, but it was “reckless and irresponsible,” the Russian official told journalists during a briefing on Thursday. It risks a further escalation of the crisis, she said.
Moscow has provided evidence to Paris confirming that French weapons previously sent to Kiev were used to attack civilian targets, Zakharova stated.
She also blasted Catherine Colonna, the French minister for Europe and foreign affairs, who stated in an interview last week that sending AMX-10 RC armored vehicles and other weapons to Ukraine didn’t make France a party to the conflict.
“Don’t be coy. It does, very much so,” the Russian diplomat said, addressing the French government. “Don’t take your own population into a disinformation wilderness.”
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