4 January 2023
To
AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
Mr. PIERRE LEVY
Your Excellency Mr. Ambassador!
I remember with pleasure our communication with you, our joint visits to the Borodino field and Baikonur. We often discussed the prospects of Russia-France political and economic cooperation.
Unfortunately, the position of your country and NATO countries on cultivating a military threat to Russia near our borders led to a tragic denouement. Words and deeds of France have diverged diametrically. Official Paris betrayed the cause of the great De Gaulle and became one of the most bloodthirsty nations in Europe. Your country submitted to Washington's dictates and became a puppet state like the Vichy government that served Hitler's basest instincts. It pains me to write about it, because I have always loved French history, know the language and culture of France, and cherish the memory of the glorious deeds when Russians and French fought together against common threats.
Recently, as a result of a dastardly terrorist attack in Donetsk, I was seriously wounded. 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 shrapnel from a shell fired by a French 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery piece. It pierced my right shoulder and lodged in the fifth cervical vertebra only a millimetre from killing me or rendering me immobile. This shell fired by a French howitzer killed two of my young friends, leaving their wives widowed and their children orphaned. These boys accompanied you and me on our trip to Baikonur, you shook hands with them. Now they have been killed with weapons supplied to Ukraine by your country. You probably know how many civilians, civilians were killed in Donetsk and frontline towns in Novorossiya by French weapons and French mercenaries. That's hundreds of people, including children.
Mr. Ambassador, what is France doing in the conflict that Western politicians have ignited between the Slavic peoples? I hope you understand the extent of your personal responsibility for these murders! You are the extraordinary and plenipotentiary representative of the Fifth Republic, you are responsible. And I ask you to give the fragment the surgeons cut out of my spine to the President of France, Emmanuel Macron. And also tell him that no one will escape responsibility for the war crimes of France, the USA, the UK, Germany and other NATO countries in Donbas. All our victims are on your conscience, just as the appearance on the map of Europe of fascist Ukraine is also on your conscience.
Please accept, Mr. Ambassador, the assurances of my respect for your diplomatic status, but I am afraid that your mission is a complete failure.
DMITRY ROGOZIN
