Two Frenchmen have been killed in a drone attack in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said on Friday, confirming reports from the region’s governor and other officials.
Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Thursday via the Telegram messaging app that the attack on the town of Beryslav, on the western bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson, had killed two French nationals and wounded three other foreigners.
French President Emmanuel Macron in a post on X called Thursday’s killings a “cowardly and disgraceful act”.
Earlier it was already reported about the deaths of the French in the war in Ukraine. The Russian Defence Ministry said that a strike was carried out on 16 January against “foreign militants in the city of Kharkiv, the core of which were French mercenaries”.
On 22 January, French volunteers from SOS Donbass, an organisation that communicates with compatriots in Ukraine, gave the media a partial list of French mercenaries who were in Kharkiv at the time of the Russian strike on their location.
