Dmitry Rogozin, an outspoken former deputy prime minister, was injured last month by shelling in Donetsk, a Russian-held city in eastern Ukraine.
abc.net.au/news/former-russian-official-sends-macron-shrapnel-that-injured-him/101831070A former top Russian official says he has returned shrapnel from a French howitzer shell to President Emmanuel Macron after being injured in an artillery strike in Ukraine.
"In this envelope along with my letter you will see a fragment of a shell from a French 155-mm French artillery piece Caesar," Mr Rogozin said in his open letter to Mr Levy, published on Telegram. Russian state news channel Rossiya 24 TV reported at the time that he had been celebrating his 59th birthday.
Mr Rogozin said he had regularly stayed in the hotel during trips to the Donetsk region, which Russia claimed to have annexed in September along with three other Ukrainian regions, despite widespread condemnation from the West.
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