Over 60 foreign fighters in Ukrainian service, most of them French, have been eliminated in a precision strike on a building in Kharkov, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

Kharkov 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 Kharkov, the majority of whom were French mercenaries,” the ministry said. 

“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 Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/russia/590825-kharkov-missile-strike-mercenaries/

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Ukrainians have repeatedly joined the losing side at key points in their history and are likely acting against their own interests once again, former presidential adviser Aleksey Arestovich has said.

President Vladimir Zelensky’s former top spin doctor resigned last January and has since moved to the US, claiming that Kiev wants him jailed on politically motivated charges.

“Our problem is that at turning points in our history, we bet on the side that is losing,” Arestovich wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. “The point is not to bet on the winners, the point is that over and over again we do not bet on ourselves and our own interests.”

As one example, Arestovich mentioned Pavel Skoropadsky, a Russian cavalry officer who sided with Imperial Germany in 1918 to head the ‘Hetmanate of Ukraine’, but had to flee when the Central Powers surrendered to the Entente.

https://www.rt.com/russia/590838-ukraine-bets-losers-arestovich/

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The Russian military killed over 60 mostly French mercenaries and wounded 20+ others in a precision strike in Kharkov this week. The attack comes amid plans by French President Emmanuel Macron to further ramp up military aid to the Kiev regime.

French-speaking mercenaries fighting in the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine are a potpourri of fascist radicals seeking to replay the Second World War on the Eastern Front, Francois Mauld d’Aymee, a French officer-turned Donbass People’s Militia volunteer has told Sputnik.

“Representatives of the French mercenary movement vary greatly. French-speaking Canadian mercenaries are worth mentioning. They, by and large, come from radical nationalist circles, and see the conflict as an opportunity to realize their pathetic dreams of replaying the Great Patriotic War. In other words, they’re openly Nazis, Hitlerites, and freely organize the dispatch of new militants from training centers which they own in Paris and Lyon. They have connections with CasaPound in Italy [a radical Italian neo-fascist movement, ed.], and their ideological line is always the same as that of Azov,” Mauld d'Aymee said, referring to the Ukrainian openly neo-Nazi volunteer brigade-turned regiment.

The volunteer, who arrived in the Donbass in 2015, and fought in the special military operation during the Battle for Mariupol, characterized French-speaking fighters fighting on Ukraine’s side as a collection of “C, sports enthusiasts [and] drug addicts,” some of them veterans of French and NATO military campaigns in Afghanistan and Africa.

“A very small number of them actually fight because their level of Ukrainian or Russian is too basic. That’s why they’re mostly kept in reserve. Most of those on the frontline have been wounded or killed,” Mauld d'Aymee stressed.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240118/donbass-volunteer-from-france-opens-up-on-french-speaking-mercs-fighting-for-ukraine-1116251816.html

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"France has no 'mercenaries' either in Ukraine or anywhere else, unlike some people," the foreign ministry told AFP, calling the claim "another clumsy Russian manipulation".

Moscow's defence ministry said on Wednesday that it had targeted "foreign militants in the city of Kharkiv, the core of which were French mercenaries" in a January 16 strike.

The ministry claimed to have killed dozens of foreign militants in the attack and injured many more, but did not provide evidence.

Russia's state-run TASS news agency said France's ambassador had been summoned in connection with the incident.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240118-paris-dismisses-russian-claim-of-french-mercenaries-in-ukraine

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A French female 'soldier of fortune' in Ukraine, has not only been furnishing support for Nazis, but also actively organizing aid deliveries from her hometown. Additionally, she has been found to have been arranging parties showcasing "French soldiers fighting in Ukraine." Sputnik has discovered.

Camille Bertrix, a French citizen from the hamlet of Pont-du-Chateau in central France, has been operating as a mercenary for the Ukrainian International Legion since spring 2023. In May, she arrived in Terebovlya, a town in the Ternopol region of Western Ukraine.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240119/exposed-pro-nazi-french-merc-sets-up-parties-with-french-troops-fighting-in-ukraine-1116270529.html

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Ukraine is likely experiencing a shortage of soldiers capable of operating complex Western weapons systems, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has told RT. A Russian report this week about a strike on “French mercenaries” in Kharkov may be a warning to would-be clandestine arms technicians that Paris plans to supply, he believes.

In response to the Russian Defense Ministry's statement, France has denied having mercenaries in Ukraine or any other part of the world. Moscow claimed that approximately 60 foreign fighters, mostly French, were killed in the long-range attack. Meanwhile, President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to supply additional air-launched SCALP cruise missiles to assist Kiev in its fight.

“I strongly suspect that many of those French ‘mercenaries’ – and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Brits and Americans scattered in there as well – are being brought in to help operate systems that they’ve been trained on previously in prior military careers,” Johnson said.

He named the US-made long-range Patriot anti-aircraft missile and the Storm Shadow, the British counterpart to SCALP, as examples of donated arms that may require competent foreign staff to deploy.

https://www.rt.com/russia/590943-french-mercenaries-larry-johnson/

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by Finian Cunningham

French President Emmanuel Macron sought this week to revamp his tattered authority over a nation that seems to have grown weary of this self-important charlatan.

In a special media conference lasting two and half hours broadcast to the nation, it seemed Macron was taking a leaf out of Russian President Vladimir Putin's book. Putin gives an annual marathon press conference taking questions from journalists and the public on all and sundry national and international issues.

It didn't go so well for Macron who ended up appearing as if he was pleading to be given respect.

There is no doubting Putin's command of issues. Over four hours, he can hold the audience's interest with cogent rational arguments, making his points with comprehensive facts and figures. Putin's approval rating among the Russian public is riding high consistently in what can be deduced as genuine respect for his leadership.

It beggars belief that any Western leader could comparably acquit themselves, speaking freely for several hours on diverse topics. Biden, Sunak, Scholz, and Trudeau are joke figures who wilt under any scrutiny.

Macron tried to do a Putin this week with his nationally televised presser and the French people weren't impressed. Polls showed, cited by NPR Radio, that a big majority (64 percent) of French disapproved of their president's performance and the content of his views. He was criticized for peddling reactionary ideas.

Macron talked a lot about the need for national unity and restoring France's international reputation. He called for a "civic rearmament" which was a strange way to promote national renewal. It smacked of fascism. Like much of his pitch, Macron sounded insecure, authoritarian, and chauvinistic. His views were more assertions than reasoned arguments. He was obviously concerned about the popularity of opposition leader Marie Le Pen, and he traduced her as leading a "party of lies".

Not a good move by Macron especially when many French citizens can see that Monsieur Le President is himself a flagrant liar.

During his appeal to the nation, Macron spun the outrageous calumny that France must support the Ukrainian regime with billions of more euros because, as he lied with a bare face, if Russia wins the war in that country (a war instigated by NATO), then Putin would continue an expansionist invasion of Europe.

Talk about absurd scaremongering. Macron must take his compatriots for complete fools to peddle such hogwash on primetime TV.

Macron said his countrymen and women need to agree to supply more Scalp cruise missiles to the (Nazi-adulating) Kiev regime in order to maintain attacks on Russian territory, such as the strikes on Belgorod at New Year which killed dozens of civilians. These French-supplied missiles have also been used to target the Russian territory of Crimea.

Just as Macron was exalting supposed French values, it turned out that an entire company of French mercenaries was killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov by a devastating Russian missile strike. At least 60 French special forces were blown apart. Paris is denying that French forces were killed.

Russia summoned the French ambassador in Moscow the next day to deliver an official rebuke to Paris on the involvement of its troops in the war. This is not a new discovery by any means. American, British, Canadian, Polish, and other NATO mercenaries have been long-tracked by Russia as unofficial participants in the two-year conflict. The French have taken a particularly significant role in sending foreign legionnaires to Ukraine to fight Russia.

Macron has involved his country in a reckless covert war with Russia - all in total deception of the French people.

This gives the lie to the real nature of the war in Ukraine. It is a U.S.-led NATO proxy war against Russia, which Russia is winning despite the array of foreign weaponry, funding, and troops.

Macron, the pathetic puppet who seems to have delusions of grandeur as if he is a reincarnation of Napoleon or De Gaulle, is immersing his country into a futile but recklessly dangerous war with nuclear-powered Russia.

If Macron spent the billions he has funneled into propping up a corrupt Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev on funding French public services and paying French workers a decent salary then maybe the French public would not have so much contempt for the former Rothschild investment banker sitting in the Elysée Palace.

Macron was elected president in May 2017 with the promise to "restore French greatness". He was re-elected again narrowly in 2022. But his lies, empty promises, and delusions are finally catching up with him.

Like other Western so-called leaders, the French president has trashed his country's economy to fuel a U.S.-led covert war against Russia in Ukraine. The warmongering is being done behind the Western public's back with outrageous mendacity and deceit.

Macron and other Western charlatan leaders lament the loss of their political authority as if that is some kind of mystery or the fault of Russian propaganda and misinformation. The reasons for the growing public contempt of Western politicians are obvious to everyone but the liars in office.

https://www.sott.net/article/488048-Macron-does-a-Putin-ends-up-shooting-own-foot

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