{"id":11832,"date":"2024-01-19T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=11832"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:19:53","slug":"duma-inquires-about-french-mercenaries-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/duma-inquires-about-french-mercenaries-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Duma Inquires about &#8216;French Mercenaries&#8217; in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, plans to formally ask France&#8217;s National Assembly if it is aware that French mercenaries have been fighting on Ukraine&#8217;s side, Vyacheslav Volodin, the Duma&#8217;s chairman, said on Friday.<br \/>\nVolodin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, made the statement after the Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had killed more than 60 foreign mercenaries, mostly French citizens, in a strike on a building in Kharkiv. It did not provide evidence to back the assertion.<br \/>\nFrance rejected the allegations, saying it was helping Ukraine defend its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity but had no mercenaries in Ukraine &#8220;unlike certain others&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;In France, the mercenary trade is forbidden by law,&#8221; Volodin wrote on the Telegram messaging app.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is important for us to know whether they (French lawmakers) are aware that someone, violating the law, is sending fighters to fight in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, plans to formally ask France&#8217;s National Assembly if it is aware that French mercenaries have been fighting on Ukraine&#8217;s side, Vyacheslav Volodin, the Duma&#8217;s chairman, said on Friday. Volodin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, made the statement after the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11834,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832\/revisions\/11834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}