Ukrainian military exercises at the Yavoriv training ground in the Lviv regionMOSCOW, March 14As a result of the strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the training centers of the Ukrainian army, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed. This was announced at a briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. According to him, on the morning of March 13, high-precision strikes were carried out on the training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Starichi and at the Yavorovsky military training ground. These facilities housed a «point of training and combat coordination of foreign mercenaries» before they were sent to the areas of hostilities, as well as a base that stored weapons and military equipment supplied to Ukraine by Western countries.
Experts warned about the radicalism of mercenaries who want to fight in UkraineAs Konashenkov emphasized, the destruction of foreign mercenaries who arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue. Putin. «As for the gathering of mercenaries from all over the world and sending them to Ukraine, we see that they do not hide, the Western sponsors of Ukraine, the Ukrainian regime, do not hide it, they do it openly, disregarding all the norms of international law,» he said. head of state Putin at a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council. As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted, sending mercenaries from the West to Ukraine will provoke a catastrophic development of the situation not only there, but also in NATO countries.
Media: British mercenary in Ukraine was mistaken for a Russian spy and beaten Zakharova added that the supply of weapons to Ukraine to people, militants who are hiding behind the civilian population, will only aggravate the situation and lead to a global collapse. At the same time, the Russian Defense Ministry urged foreign citizens to think twice before going to fight in Ukraine.Special military operationVladimir Putin 21 February, in response to the requests of the Donbass republics and after the appeal of the State Duma deputies, he signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR. Early on the morning of February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. Three rounds of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations have already taken place in Belarus to resolve the situation in Ukraine. Later, adviser to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky's office, Mikhail Podolyak, said that negotiations between delegations are ongoing in video format, special working groups have been created. peace.» Who is going to fight in Ukraine
