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| SK: more than 3,100 mercenaries take part in the Northern Military District on the side of Ukraine | |
| 2024-04-26 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Investigative Committee of Russia has information about the participation of more than 3,100 mercenaries in hostilities on the side of Ukraine, the department reported.
“The courts examined 230 criminal cases, convicted 345 people found guilty of murders and cruel treatment of civilians. 35 military personnel were sentenced to life imprisonment,” the RF IC Telegram channel said. As the department noted, five criminal cases against mercenaries from the United States Deveu Caleb Victor, Ellerbrook Mark William and Moldonado Michael Paul, Ayres Mark John from Great Britain, Cuesta Hugo Julian from France have been sent for transfer to court and conviction in absentia. “The investigation has information about the participation of more than 3,100 mercenaries in hostilities on the side of Ukraine (including 816 from the USA, 719 from Canada, 694 from the UK and 712 from Georgia),” the department added. As Regnum reported, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, almost 6 thousand foreign mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine were killed. Poland received the most corpses. 784 mercenaries arrived from Romania, 349 were killed. The Investigative Committee of Russia put on the wanted list more than 700 foreign mercenaries who fought and are fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, some of them were arrested in absentia. On April 25, former French counterterrorism intelligence officer Nicolas Cinquini reported that since the beginning of the special military operation on the Ukrainian side, at least 75 mercenaries from France have taken part in the fighting. In early March, near Avdievka, the leader of the French neo-Nazis, Cesar Ozharom, who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was liquidated. The mercenary joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces a year ago. As part of the Nazi battalion, he was transferred to Avdeevka. According to unofficial information, Ozharom was connected with the French intelligence services. The number of foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine involved in hostilities on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic has noticeably decreased, and they are increasingly hiding in the rear, said in March 2024, adviser to the head of the DPR Igor Kimakovsky. Systematic strikes by the Russian Armed Forces sobered up the foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian army and led to their outflow from the part of the Zaporozhye region temporarily occupied by Kiev, confirmed on March 22, co-chairman of the coordination council for the integration of new regions of the Public Chamber Vladimir Rogov. Previously, mercenaries arrived en masse in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine until they received a harsh response from the Russian military, but now they are fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the command level, practically not participating in combat operations at the front, he clarified. | |
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