France, Nov. 18 -- Greenpeace published video that it said its activists shot on Saturday of around 10 containers with radioactive labels going onto a cargo ship in Dunkirk.

The Panamanian-registered ship, the Mikhail Dudin, is regularly used to carry enriched or natural uranium from France to St Petersburg, according to Greenpeace.

Saturday's consignment was the first of reprocessed uranium to be observed for three years, it added.

"The resumption of this trade once again shows France's dependence on Russia," Pauline Boyer, the head of Greenpeace France's nuclear campaign, told RFI.

The images released by Greenpeace came two days ahead of a meeting in Paris between the French president, Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart, ...