Q: The press service of the Russian Prosecutor-Common’s Workplace says there may be proof that the Ukrainian armed forces are presently utilizing French cluster munitions, which is prohibited below worldwide regulation. Are you able to touch upon that assertion by the Russian Prosecutor-Common?
A: France maintains its help for Ukraine within the face of the Russian aggression, which it condemns within the strongest doable phrases. We name on Russia to finish the hostilities and withdraw its troops from Ukrainian territory. We urge it to adjust to worldwide humanitarian regulation, in view of the numerous experiences of a number of violations dedicated by Russian armed forces in the midst of Russia’s aggression in opposition to Ukraine.
Allegations circulating within the Russian media and amplified by social media asserting that France is supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions are completely false. France totally complies with its obligations below the Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions, to which it’s a get together State, and which Russia selected to not be part of. We condemn Russia’s repeated, indiscriminate use of those weapons in Ukraine in violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation.
