Russia brands Ukraine-France arms deal a scam

The agreements between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron on military assistance to Kiev are nothing more than the biggest fraud in modern history.

 1news.media reports that this was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, at a briefing today.

She recalled that on November 17, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky signed an agreement at the Villacoublay air base in the Paris region on military assistance to Kiev and the supply of 100 French-made Rafale fighter jets to the Ukrainian army.

“Zelensky hastened to call the document “historical”. I think that in principle, he is partly right. In my opinion, this is a document that will go down in history. It cannot even be called an agreement. It seems that one of the biggest scams in modern history is coming. The Kyiv regime does not have the money for such a large purchase, which could cost 20 billion euros, just as it does not have the equipment that Paris claims. So this is an interesting virtual deal. One does not have the money, the other does not have the goods, but they have agreed on something for the future,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman noted.