Russian Defense Ministry says foreign mercenaries in Ukraine commit sabotage on Russian convoys (other comments inside)
Ministry of Defense commented on the arrival of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine. The key point are the following:
1. Please note that against the background of the encirclement and destruction of the main groups of Ukrainian nationalists by the Russian Armed Forces, Western countries have increased the dispatch of contract soldiers from private military companies to the combat areas.
2. Foreign mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine commit sabotage and raids on Russian convoys of equipment and supplies, as well as aircraft covering them. It is they who, in the propaganda videos distributed on social networks by the Ukrainian special services, evade getting into the frame of the phones of the supposedly “local residents”.
3. Great Britain, Denmark, Latvia, Poland and Croatia legally allowed their citizens to participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. The command of the French Foreign Legion plans to send ethnic Ukrainian soldiers to help the Kiev regime. According to Zelensky, 16,000 foreign mercenaries are expected to arrive in Ukraine to compensate for the crushing military failures of the Ukrainian security forces. For them, a visa-free regime is officially introduced.
4. Last week alone, about 200 mercenaries from Croatia arrived through Poland, who joined one of the nationalist battalions in southeastern Ukraine.
5. All mercenaries sent by the West to help the Kiev nationalist regime are not combatants under international humanitarian law. They are not entitled to prisoner of war status. The best thing that awaits foreign mercenaries upon arrest is criminal prosecution. We urge citizens of foreign countries planning to go to fight for the Kyiv nationalist regime to think twice before the trip.