 Russia killed French fighters in Ukraine. Over 60 foreign fighters in Ukrainian service, most of them French, have been eliminated in a precision strike on a building in Kharkov, the Russian Defence Ministry. Kharkov is a major Ukrainian military stronghold in the East and has been the launching pad for rocket attacks on Russian territory, including the December 30th massacre in Belgorod that killed 25 and injured more than 100. On the evening of January 16, the armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out a high precision strike on the temporary assembly point of foreign fighters in the city of Kharkov, the majority of whom were French mercenaries. The Ministry said, as a result of the strike, the building in which the mercenaries were stationed was completely destroyed. More than 60 militants were killed while over 20 were taken to hospitals, the Russian military added. The strike came on the same day that French President Emmanuel Macron announced Paris could not allow Russia to win and pledged to send 40 scalp cruise missiles and hundreds of bombs to Kiev. Thousands of foreign fighters flocked to Ukraine at the start of hostilities with Russia. In 2022.