Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry KulebaMOSCOW, Mar 6 Total number of applications from foreigners to participate in the conflict on the side of Ukraine approached 20 thousand, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said at a briefing. applications is approaching 20,000,” Kuleba said. that in Ukraine the appearance of mercenaries from third countries, including from Albania and Croatia, Kosovo militants, jihadists is increasingly recorded. Countries condoning the sending of mercenaries to Ukraine become accomplices in war crimes, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
The first foreign mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, media write
