Moscow ready to strike French military trainers in Ukraine --"No instructor involved in training the Ukrainian military has immunity," the Kremlin says. | 4 June 2024 | Russia responded with a new threat of escalation on Tuesday to reports that France could soon send trainers to help the Ukrainian military. "No instructor involved in training the Ukrainian military has immunity," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the press according to a report from French newswire AFP. "It doesn't matter whether they're French or not," Peskov added. Last week, Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said French trainers would come to Ukraine "soon," a statement which was downplayed at the time both in Paris and Kyiv.