Two French people killed in Ukraine, the Quai d’Orsay denounces “Russian barbarism”

Two French people who were in Ukraine on a humanitarian mission were killed in a Russian attack on Thursday February 1.

Two French humanitarian workers were killed Thursday February 1 during a Russian drone attack in Beryslav, near Kherson, southern Ukraine, local authorities announced TF1. Three other people were slightly injured. Emmanuel Macron expressed his indignation in a post on X, describing the attack as “cowardly and undignified”. This Friday, February 2, Stéphane Séjourné, Minister of Foreign Affairs, denounced “Russian barbarity” before sending his thoughts to the victims and their loved ones.

The two victims were present in the town of 12,000 inhabitants located near the front line, on the north bank of the Dnieper River, as part of a mission led by a Swiss-based humanitarian organization which provides assistance to civilians present on the front lines of the war. The Ukrainian National Police announced on Telegram that it had opened an investigation into violations of the laws of war.

This Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, must rule on its competence to judge a case brought by theUkraine just after the Russian invasion in 2022. kyiv accuses Moscow of having wrongly invoked a genocide in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine to justify the invasion, notes 20 minutes. Ukraine had seized the ICJ, “categorically denying” this accusation. In March 2022, the Court sided with Ukraine, but the Russia, for whom the court which decides disputes between countries is not competent to judge this type of case, opposed the verdict. In September 2023, Anton Korynevych, Ukraine’s representative to the ICJ, declared that “every missile that Russia fires at [les villes ukrainiennes]it does so in defiance of this Court.” The conflict, which has dragged on for almost two years, has left 500,000 dead and injured, according to American officials, reveals Release.