Dmitry Rogozin, the former CEO of Roskosmos, the Russian state-owned company responsible for space flight and aerospace research, and a former deputy prime minister of the Russian government, sent the fragment recovered from his body to President Emmanuel Macron’s French ambassador. in Moscow, claiming that he had been hit by a French CAESAR howitzer in occupied Donetsk and that France would pay the price.

“Recently, I was seriously injured in a vile terrorist attack in Donetsk. It is only thanks to the great skill and patience of Russian military and civilian doctors that I am alive again and almost healthy. In this envelope, along with my letter, you see a shell fragment from a French CAESAR 155mm self-propelled howitzer that pierced my right shoulder and lodged in the fifth cervical vertebra, just a millimeter from either killing me or rendering me immobile. This projectile, fired from a French howitzer, killed two of my young friends, leaving their wives widows and their children orphans. These guys accompanied us on a trip to Baikonur, you shook hands. Now they have been killed by weapons supplied by your country to Ukraine.”

Rogozin stated that “hundreds of people” were killed in the Donbas by “French weapons and French mercenaries.”

The former head of Roscosmos wrote to the ambassador that “the French authorities betrayed the principle of the great de Gaulle and became one of the most bloodthirsty states in Europe”, that France “submitted to the dictates of Washington and became a puppet state like in Vichy, which served the base instincts of the Nazis.”

“Mr. Ambassador,” Rogozin continues in his letter published on his Telegram channel, “what is France doing, what are you doing in the conflict that Western politicians have kindled between the Slavic peoples? I hope you understand the measure of your personal responsibility for these murders! You are an outstanding and plenipotentiary representative of the Fifth Republic, you are the main one. I ask you to hand over the piece that the surgeons cut out of my spine to French President Emmanuel Macron. And also tell him that no one will escape responsibility for the war crimes committed by France, the United States, Great Britain, Germany and other NATO countries in the Donbass. The pity of all the victims is on your neck, as well as the appearance of fascist Ukraine on the map of Europe.”

Dmitry Rogozin was wounded in Russian-held Donetsk on 21 December during an attack on the Shesh-Besh Hotel. He reportedly celebrated his birthday there. Rogozin was hospitalized with a penetrating wound: according to media reports, a metal fragment measuring 8×6 millimeters entered over the right shoulder blade in the region of the spine. Later, Rogozin was taken to a Moscow hospital and operated on.

According to Le Parisien, Ukrayinska Pravda