Russian official sends shrapnel from French-produced shell that wounded him to ambassador

The former Head of the Roscosmos corporation and current Head of the "Tsar's wolves" military advisors and research centre, Dmitry Rogozin, has sent shrapnel from a Caesar howitzer to the French Ambassador from which he sustained an injury.

According to Gazeta.ru, Rogozin pointed out in a letter to the diplomat that the shrapnel pierced his right shoulder and lodged in the fifth cervical vertebra, only millimetres from killing him or rendering him paralysed.

He stressed that a shell fired by a French howitzer had killed two of his young friends.

Caliber.Az recalls, that Rogozin, who used to serve as deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018, was injured during a visit to the city of Donetsk in late December 2022 when a restaurant he was dining at came under fire, as reported by Interfax. 

Rogozin also asked the ambassador to give the shrapnel to French President Emmanuel Macron and inform him that "no one will escape responsibility for war crimes in Donbas".

"The position of your country and NATO countries to build up a military threat to Russia near our borders has led to a tragic denouement", he added in his letter.