On March 13, British Ambassador to Moscow N. Casey and French Ambassador to Moscow N. de Rivière were summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where a strong protest was lodged in connection with the Ukrainian Armed Forces' March 10 strike on Bryansk using cruise missiles produced by the joint French-British concern MBDA, according to a Russian Foreign Ministry statement.

During the démarche, Britain and France were identified as directly complicit in the terrorist act, which killed seven people and wounded more than forty. "It is obvious to us that the missile strike on Bryansk would have been impossible without the involvement of British and French specialists in its organization, as well as without the transfer of intelligence to the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv."

It was emphasized that in the event of further complicity by London and Paris in the war crimes of the Kyiv regime, responsibility for the destructive consequences of the armed conflict and escalation of tensions would fall on these European capitals.

It was also stated that Moscow views the Bryansk strike as a deliberate provocation aimed at undermining the intensified efforts toward a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

Britain and France were called upon to abandon inhumane actions in their drive to raise their political profile and return their sponsored "Ukrainian project" to the focus of the international agenda amid the current escalation in the Middle East.

Russia demanded that Britain and France provide a clear public response with firm and unambiguous condemnation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' terrorist act in Bryansk, warning that its absence would be considered solidarity with terrorist methods — shameful for countries that are permanent members of the UN Security Council.