Foreign mercenaries in Lviv, UkraineMOSCOW, Mar 21 Mercenaries fighting in Donbass on the side of the Kiev regime, they came there for a selfie, French volunteer and sniper Erwan Castel said in an interview with RIA Novosti. content/uploads/2022/03/b22991741f4cb57a0a7af4a0415ff069.jpg» />The Russian military attacked the center with mercenaries in the Rivne region»These people (Kyiv mercenaries — ed.) remind me more of amateurs and daffodils who came to Ukraine to take a selfie» , — said the interlocutor. He stressed that he personally does not know a single Frenchman who fights on the side of Kyiv, but he knows that there are such. «These are radical nationalists, rather even neo-fascists and neo-Nazis who joined the national battalions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian foreign legion .This one what a project that is designed to accept new mercenaries who would become under the sovereign Ukrainian banner,» Kastel noted. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. side kills people in Donbass
