MOSCOW, June 22 Up to 30 wounded and 8 dead mercenaries from the US and Britain evacuated to near Nikolaevka (DPR) so that they do not get to the RF Armed Forces, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. wounded and eight dead American and British mercenaries to prevent them from falling into the units of the Russian Armed Forces,» the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. from the USA called the Armed Forces of Ukraine a «circus of freaks» after the battle with the Ukrainian special forces 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 Kyiv 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 and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
