Destroyed Ukrainian tank in the LPR. File photoMOSCOW, June 19Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine are suffering heavy losses, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel. the living are increasingly thinking about giving up this senseless business and getting away from Ukraine,» he wrote. If in early March foreign mercenaries boasted of filming «recklessness on armored personnel carriers,» now they «desperately state their helplessness,» Kadyrov added . As an example, he cited a mercenary from the United States, James Vasquez, who wrote about heavy losses in one of his posts on social networks. In particular, the American admitted that he lost a lot of people last week and wants to return home as soon as possible. As the Ministry of Defense reported, at the beginning of the Russian military special operation, about seven thousand foreign mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, mainly from Poland, Canada and the United States. Now there are a little over 3.2 thousand of them. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
