Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed on Wednesday that the French Foreign Ministry validated Russia’s historic hate of France by judging the Ukrainian slaughter of people in Belgorod to be in self-defense.
On Saturday, Ukrainian artillery dropped cluster bombs on the Russian city’s central square, hurting over 100 civilians and killing 25, including children. When asked about it on Wednesday morning, a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Paris claimed Ukraine was “acting in self-defense,” while Russia was “an aggressor state” responsible for any “human tragedies that accompany” the conflict.
“We never liked the French,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram. “The frogs fought a war against us,” he continued, alluding to Napoleon Bonaparte’s disastrous 1812 invasion.
“Now we are convinced of this. The French Foreign Ministry said that the strike on Belgorod using cluster munitions was ‘self-defense’,” he added. “Scum. Bastards. Freaks.”
The French response to the Belgorod massacre echoed the official position of the European Union, which has fully endorsed Kiev
“Ukraine has the legal right to defend itself in general,” said EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano on Wednesday. “Regarding the specific incident in Belgorod, no information that comes from Russia can be considered trustworthy.”
Although Kiev’s forces have been attacking Russia’s border regions for months, the onslaught on Belgorod on December 30 was the worst of its sort during the conflict. Moscow has accused the United States and the United Kingdom of assisting in the planning of the attack, while a security source informed RT that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky personally ordered the slaughter.
Russia has retaliated with drone and missile strikes against Ukrainian military industry sites, repair shops, and ammunition warehouses, as well as depots laden with weaponry given by the West to Kiev.
