BY THE MINISTRY FOR EUROPE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPOKESPERSON UKRAINE – RUSSIA’S DEADLY STRIKES AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATION

STATEMENT

BY THE MINISTRY FOR EUROPE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPOKESPERSON

UKRAINE – RUSSIA’S DEADLY STRIKES AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATION

3 November 2026

France utterly condemns the Russian strikes that rained down on Zaporizhzhia Oblast on Monday 2 November, repeatedly targeting a school serving as a humanitarian aid centre, while people went there to receive assistance, leading to the deaths of over 30 civilians. Likewise, it strongly condemns Russia’s massive attacks last night with an unprecedented number of 110 missiles fired at Ukraine, mainly targeting energy infrastructure. In Kharkiv a hospital was hit, with more than 70 people injured and 200 patients evacuated.

These new attacks against civilians and critical infrastructure as winter approaches illustrate once again – as if it were needed – the Kremlin’s cynicism and total contempt for international humanitarian law, at the very time when it has simultaneously been capable of accepting a targeted humanitarian ceasefire in Oleshky. It is crucial to maintain safe, unimpeded humanitarian access to the Ukrainian population.

France is deeply alarmed by the violence of these attacks and expresses its unshakeable solidarity with Ukraine. At this time of mourning, it extends its condolences to the victims’ families, wishes those injured a speedy recovery and pays tribute to the courage of the rescuers mobilized after each strike. In the face of these ever more deadly attacks, it reaffirms its total determination to work alongside its partners to resolve the conflict, support Ukraine in the long term and increase pressure on Russia to end its war of aggression.

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