More than 40 foreign mercenaries, most of whom were Polish citizens, have been killed by a missile strike in Donbass, Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed on Tuesday. They add to a growing list of foreign combatants who have lost their lives fighting for Ukraine.
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High-precision air-based missiles struck a temporary deployment point of Ukraine’s International Legion units near Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), and “took out over 40 foreign mercenaries, most of them Poles,” the ministry said in a statement.
Last week, Russia said its armed forces had killed up to 250 soldiers of fortune in the same settlement, destroying a number of military vehicles.
The Russian military also carried out an air raid on positions of the Ukrainian Army’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade in the DPR village of Zaitsevo, taking out more than 70 “nationalists” and one ammunition depot.
The Defense Ministry reported that high-precision strikes near the city of Nikolayev in southern Ukraine had destroyed one artillery battalion of the 59th Ukrainian Motorized Infantry Brigade. The brigade sustained losses of more than 70% of its personnel and military equipment, according to the ministry’s briefing.
https://www.rt.com/russia/559653-poland-ukraine-mercenaries-russia-strike/