The complaint filed in France by two NGOs accusing TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes, for having exploited a gas field producing kerosene used by Russian planes carrying out bombardments in Ukraine, has been dismissed, the lawyers for the two NGOs said on Monday.

The Ukrainian association Razom We Stand and the French association Darwin Climax Coalitions, which accuse TotalEnergies of having "contributed to providing the Russian government with the means necessary to commit war crimes" in Ukraine, have expressed their intention to appeal the decision of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat), to which they had forwarded their complaint last October.

In a press release published on the Razom We Stand website, the two NGOs' lawyers state that they were informed on January 10 that their complaint had been rejected on the grounds of a lack of material evidence and TotalEnergies' intentions.

The French oil group denies the accusations, described as "defamatory" in a press release sent to Le Monde in October, according to which the NGOs' complaint followed revelations by the newspaper that TotalEnergies was a 49% shareholder in the Termokarstovoye field in Siberia, where stabilized gas is produced in a processing plant supplying a refinery which, in turn, sells kerosene to the Russian air force. (Written by Jean Terzian)