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Lecornu added during an interview with the LCI TV channel, in response to a question about the status of the French who are participating in the conflict in Ukraine, saying: “There are French civilians who went to fight in Ukraine in Ukrainian military uniforms. We cannot prevent them, as we are still a democratic country. By nature, these people have no connection to the French armed forces, do not wear French military uniforms and have no connection to French military institutions. According to him, the statements about the presence of French mercenaries in Ukraine are part of the “Russian information war”, which has “intensified.” After French President Emmanuel Macron announced that it would supply Kiev with 40 additional Scalp missiles. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced last Wednesday that Russian forces had targeted, with a high-precision strike, a temporary deployment point in Kharkov for foreign fighters, and killed a large number of them, and confirmed that most of them were... French mercenaries.