According to Dmitry Ragozin, these are shell fragments that injured him during a Ukrainian attack on a hotel in Donetsk
Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and former head of Russia’s Roskosmos space agency, Dmitry Ragozin, said today that he sent French President Emmanuel Macron the fragments of a shell that wounded him in Ukraine, which he said was fired by a French Caesar missile that Paris surrendered to Kyiv.
Rogozin, who now heads a group of military advisers assisting separatist forces in Ukraine, was wounded in the back in December during a Ukrainian attack on a hotel in Donetsk, a Russian-held region in eastern Ukraine. The attack caused many deaths and injuries.
Rogozin had said the incident happened during a “work meeting” at the hotel’s restaurant. Russian state television channel Rossia 24 had reported that the former Roscosmos boss was celebrating his 59th birthday there, with guests and musicians.
He had stated that after the attack he underwent surgery at the hospital because a fragment of a shell lodged above his right shoulder blade.
Rogozin, a staunch supporter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, explained that he had sent a letter to the French ambassador in Moscow, Pierre Levy.
“In this envelope, together with my letter, you see a shell fragment fired from a French 155mm Caesar self-propelled gun,” Rogozin said in the letter posted on Telegram.
“It went through my right shoulder and lodged in the fifth cervical vertebra, a millimeter difference could have either killed me or crippled me,” he wrote.
The French embassy in Moscow, contacted by AFP, did not immediately want to comment.
The bombing that injured Rogozin also killed two of his friends, the latter explained, adding: “All our victims weigh on your conscience.”
“I ask you to hand over the fragment removed from my spine by the surgeons to French President Emmanuel Macron,” the Russian official said. “And tell him that no one will escape responsibility for war crimes,” he added.
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