Checkpoint in Kiev regionMOSCOW, Mar 25 Ukrainian media published a video of Georgian mercenaries on Friday in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian edition strana.ua, the video was allegedly filmed in the city of Irpin in the Kiev region, a group of mercenaries is led by former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili. » />Western media: Azov militants are not Nazis. Because they are not GermansEarlier, the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Sergei Rudskoy, said that more than 6.5 thousand foreign mercenaries and terrorists from 62 states are operating on the territory of Ukraine. He noted that they would be mercilessly destroyed. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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 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.
