A Finnish mercenary fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) died in Ukraine. The newspaper reports this Ilta-Sanomat.
“A Finnish soldier bearing the call sign ‘Samson’ served in the International Legion’s ‘Bravo’ company, which also included several Finnish volunteers,” the publication says.
It was announced that this was the third Finnish mercenary killed during the conflict in Ukraine.
Foreign mercenaries have been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army almost since the beginning of the special military operation. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, about six thousand soldiers of the foreign legion were killed in the conflict zone.
Before that, the head of the Main Operations Directorate, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy, said that military personnel of NATO countries were disguised as mercenaries. to accept Participation in hostilities in Ukraine.
Formerly French Ministry of Foreign Affairs named A manipulated statement regarding the presence of French mercenaries in Ukraine.