PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron denounced on Friday a “cowardly and undignified act” the day after the death of two French humanitarian workers in an attack by the Russian army in Ukraine.
The head of French diplomacy, Stéphane Séjourné, for his part declared that Russia should “answer for its crimes”.
“Two French humanitarian workers were killed in Ukraine by a Russian strike. A cowardly and undignified act. I am thinking of their loved ones and their injured comrades,” the French president declared on X (formerly Twitter).
Stéphane Séjourné specified on the same social network that “three” French humanitarian workers were also injured. “Russia will have to answer for its crimes,” he underlines.
Kherson region governor Oleksandr Prokudin announced Thursday that a Russian airstrike with armed drones killed two French aid workers and injured three other foreign nationals in the town of Berislav.
(Written by Zhifan Liu, edited by Sophie Louet)
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