France on Russian claims about military plane crash: "we are used to lies"

France is in no position to tell whether or not assertions made by Russian officials according to which Ukraine was behind this week's fatal crash of a Russian military aircraft are true, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry in Paris said.

"Russia has accustomed us to lying on these matters", deputy Foreign Ministry spokesperson Christophe Lemoine told reporters in a weekly briefing.

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