“Flow Rotary”
The message from the Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the flow of foreign mercenaries into Ukraine is “actually reversed”. The ministry believes this is due to “increasing military failures” and “massive daily losses in manpower and equipment” in Kiev.
“Despite the efforts of the Kyiv regime and the increase in payments, the process of exiting the mercenaries to the “other” world or returning to their country of residence cannot be stopped by the Kyiv leadership. According to the Ministry of Defense Telegram channel, empty statements about the “20,000” foreigners who have recently “fighted” against the Russian armed forces are an ordinary lie.
The department “monitors and records” the stay of “every representative” of this international meeting of “headless horsemen” in Ukraine.
“Moreover, our databases no longer contain only mercenaries directly involved in hostilities as part of Ukrainian units. We also take into account the instructors who come to Ukraine to assist, train and assist in the operation and repair of Western weapons supplied to Ukraine. ”
According to the Ministry of Defense, Poland is “the undisputed leader in the number of mercenaries, both arriving and dying” among European countries. Since the beginning of military special operations, 1,831 people from this country have arrived in Ukraine, of which 378 were killed and 272 returned home. Romania is followed by Poland with 504 arrivals, 102 deaths and 98 departures. In third place is the United Kingdom – 422 arriving, 101 dead and 95 returned home. Among the continents of the Western Hemisphere, Canada is the leader: 601 people arrived, 162 died, 169 remained. United States in second place: 530 arrived, 214 died, 227 remained.
From the Middle East, Transcaucasia and Asia, up to 355 mercenaries came to Ukraine from Georgia. Of these, 120 died and 90 left Ukraine.
In total, as of June 17, 2022, our lists include mercenaries and weapons specialists from 64 countries. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 6,956 people have arrived in Ukraine, 1,956 people have died and 1,779 people have left.”
20 thousand foreigners
On June 13, the head of the Georgian National Legion, Mamuka Mamulashvili, in an interview with Sky News declaration20,000 foreign volunteers are fighting on the Ukrainian side.
According to him, about 3 thousand of the total number of foreign fighters are British. He added that US fighters make up the third largest group of foreign volunteers.
Mamulashvili also said that 70-80% of foreign mercenaries had passed through the Georgian National Legion (a Georgian military formation created during the conflict in Donbass in 2014), led by them, but only one in ten foreign volunteers remained in his battalion. The rest goes to the Foreign Legion.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said on June 2 that since the beginning of May, the flow of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine to participate in hostilities against the Russian armed forces has almost completely dried up.
According to our data, the total number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine today has almost halved from 6.6 to 3.5 thousand. At the same time, the number of mercenaries in the combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard in the Donbas has greatly decreased,” he said.
Capture of mercenaries
On Wednesday, CNN reported that two Americans from Alabama were missing, Alexander John-Robert Druke, 39, from Tuscaloosa, and Andy Tai Ngoc Hyun, 27, from Hartsell, who was fighting alongside Ukrainian forces north of Kharkiv. . There are suggestions that he may have been caught.
tv channel on friday knowledgeable It turned out to be about the third US citizen who went missing in Ukraine – Grady Kurpasi, a retired Marine Corps veteran.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the previous day that the United States could not confirm data on the capture of American mercenaries in Ukraine. According to him, the administration of the American president does not know where these volunteers are and is currently trying to obtain more data on them.
Three foreigners apprehended in Mariupol on 9 June – two British nationals Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin and Moroccan national Saadoun Brahim – were sentenced to death in Donetsk.
Oleg Nikolenko, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that all foreigners fighting in Ukrainian troops have the status of warriors regarding the decision.
“All foreigners fighting on the territory of Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian armed forces are soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Under international humanitarian law, they are subject to the legal status of fighters, ”said European Pravda Nikolenko.
Source: Gazeta
