Adrien Bocquet reported witnessing Kiev’s forces war crimes in the Ukraine.
A former French military serviceman Adrien Bocquet who came as a volunteer to help Kiev’s forces, has now requested asylum in Russia, the RIA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed “source familiar with the situation.” The Frenchman had previously repeatedly traveled to the Ukraine and Donbass and claimed that he had witnessed war crimes committed by the Ukrainian forces.
“A former French serviceman, Adrien Bocquet, has approached the Russian authorities and asked them to grant him political asylum,” the source told RIA, adding that the asylum application was supposedly filed in mid-December. The Russian authorities have so far not commented on the development.
Bocquet first traveled to Ukraine as a volunteer delivering humanitarian aid last spring. At the time, he visited Lviv and Kiev as well as its suburbs, including Bucha. Kiev accused the Russian forces of committing mass killings of civilians in that town, which the Russian troops withdrew from in late March. Moscow has repeatedly denied all of the accusations.
After returning to France in May, Bocquet gave an interview to French Sud Radio, where he reported to have witnessed the abuse of Russian POWs at the hands of Ukrainian soldiers. The Frenchman accused the Ukrainian soldiers of torturing and killing civilians and claimed the French media was concealing that. He also said that he himself was detained by the Ukrainian soldiers for ten hours.
Last summer, he started traveling to the Donbass regions controlled by the Russian forces and local militias while publishing reports on the situation on the ground on his Telegram channel. There, he wrote weapons like Caesar howitzers, which France supplies to Ukraine, end up injuring civilians in Donbass.
In October, Bocquet claimed he was attacked by “militants” linked to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in Istanbul. The Frenchman also published a photo of himself lying in bed with some visible injuries to his face and one hand. The next day, France’s foreign ministry published a statement in which it said it had “no information” on the incident.
Bocquet himself has not commented on his reported asylum application so far, RT reports
A former French marine who joined with the Ukrainians to push back against the Russian liberators said that he has witnessed war crimes – at the hands of Ukrainians, not Russians.
The marine, Adrien Bocquet, also said that several Ukrainian soldiers that he had contact with, were neo-Nazis, who vowed to harm Jews if they were able to get away with their crimes.
Bocquet told Sud Radio, a French station, that he saw “a lot of war crimes “ by Ukrainian and didn’t see anything like that from Russian troops.
The former marine noted that because of what he saw while there, he has his concerns about why the United States and Europe are sending weapons to the neo-Nazis, complete with Nazi insignia, are being given weapons.
“I worked with them and gave them medicine. Do you know what they said? That they would skin Jews or blacks if they had the chance,” he told the station, noting that those remarks do not line up with the ‘mainstream’ media narrative of saving “democracy” and “our values” in Ukraine.
“People can say whatever they want. I was there. I saw what happened there,” emphasized Bocquet, who says he has several dozen videos of war crimes.
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