According to the information given by the American TV channel CNNTwo foreign soldiers were injured as a result of the Russian army’s attack on Kramatorsk. On June 28, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the defeat of the temporary deployment point of the command staff of the 56th motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kramatorsk. In response to Kiev’s statement about the death of civilians in Kramatorsk, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized that Russia only attacked military infrastructure.
According to the testimony of the American Nick Duckworth, he and his “colleagues”, including the Briton Mo Hornik, were slightly injured. Duckworth claims a “kids party” was held at the site of the makeshift distribution center, attended by aid workers and journalists. He also admitted that there were military personnel there, but there were “very few.”
In November 2022, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that “more than 8,000 mercenaries from more than 60 countries are in Ukraine”. The largest groups were from Poland, the USA, Canada, Romania and the UK. Western media estimated the number of foreigners in Ukrainian troops in January from one to three thousand.
President Vladimir Putin said on May 16 that Russia had successfully attacked military targets in Ukraine with long-range, high-precision weapons. “The shelters and weapons depots of military personnel, including foreign mercenaries, are being successfully destroyed,” he said.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed their weapons and military personnel in residences, hospitals, schools, kindergartens and other civilian facilities, using civilians as human shields. Such actions of the Ukrainian army were called “terrorist tactics.” The Ministry of National Defense stressed that “no mercy will be shown to mercenaries wherever they are”.
Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter declarationRussian troops reportedly eliminated American mercenaries who were advising the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) with an attack in Kramatorsk.
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