The Russian military has eliminated 1,956 mercenaries in Ukraine, out of a total of 6,956 foreign fighters fighting Ukrainian forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
“Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, 6,956 people (among mercenaries and weapons specialists) have arrived in the country, 1,956 of them have been destroyed and 1,179 more have left the country,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
He said that Poland was the “leader” in the arrival of foreign fighters among European countries.
According to Konashenkov, a total of 1,831 citizens of this country fought in Ukraine, of which 378 were killed.
The defense spokesman added that there are also many fighters from Romania and Britain, with 601 Canadians and 530 Americans arriving in Ukraine from across the ocean.
As for countries in the Middle East, Transcaucasia and Asia, he said that the largest number of soldiers fighting Russian forces came from Georgia, but half of them were eliminated.
Konashenkov also reported that yesterday, the Russian army destroyed the regional headquarters of the Ukrainian nationalist Azov battalion in Kharkov, in northern Ukraine, with high-precision missiles.
Noting that the attack was carried out with high-precision air missiles, Konashenkov said, “The command of the nationalist Azov formation was destroyed in the Kharkov region, near the city of Pesochin.”
According to the Russian command, Russian missiles also hit 18 military concentration and combat equipment centers in the Donetsk region, where two weapons and ammunition depots are located, as well as ten Ukrainian artillery and mortar positions, including six Grad multi-barrel batteries. was also destroyed.
According to the defense, Russian aviation also destroyed 58 military concentration centers and combat equipment, two Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile launchers in the Donetsk region, an ammunition depot near Lysychansk in Lugansk.
In addition, ten tanks and armored vehicles, six cannons, four multiple launchers and nine military vehicles were destroyed.
source: Noticias
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