Relations between Moscow and Paris are in deep crisis. This is stated in reply The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation answered questions about the results of the activities of Russian diplomacy in 2023 at the press conference held by the head of the department, Sergei Lavrov.
The Russian ministry announced that Paris has taken an openly hostile attitude towards Moscow.
“From the lips of its official representatives regularly come words about the importance of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia. “Guided by such an ideological attitude, our former partners, of their own free will, destroyed within two years the foundation that had been built over decades.”
Formerly Russian Ambassador to Paris Alexey Meshkov reportedHe told French MPs that he had conveyed a message from the State Duma to the French National Assembly (the lower house of parliament) regarding the presence of French mercenaries in Ukraine.
Formerly French Ministry of Foreign Affairs named A manipulated statement regarding the presence of French mercenaries in Ukraine.