France, Feb. 5 -- France has summoned the Russian ambassador over the deaths of two French humanitarian aid workers last week in a Russian strike in Ukraine- as well as what it says is a disinformation campaign targeting France.

French terrorism prosecutors have opened a war crimes investigation into a strike last Thursday in the Kherson region of southern Ukrainethat killed two French aid workers and injured three other citizens.

Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said the strike, near the frontline on the Dnipro river,was an act of "barbarism", and wrote on X that Russia would be made to answer for its "crimes".

Russian ambassador Alexey Meshkov is to be summoned to the ministry over the attack, and over what France has called a surg...