MOSCOW, Jan 4 Telegram-channel radio intercepts of negotiations of Polish mercenaries in Marinka.
According to him, shortly before the New Year holidays, the Ukrainian command transferred two groups of fighters to this difficult sector of the front. Bezsonov clarified that initially their number was 120 people, but now only about 30 survived.
Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR also published radio intercepts of the mercenaries' conversations.
"Where did we go? !We were told something else… There is nowhere to hide. Communication is jammed… The Ukrainians fled, but we were not warned. We have losses. Big losses… Ukrainian mortars are hitting us. We hear the direction of the volley … We go out to the Russians. Yes, we are leaving … We were defeated. We were expected!.." — Bezsonov cited the statements of the Poles.
In early November, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that more than eight thousand mercenaries from more than 60 countries arrived in Ukraine, the most numerous groups from Poland, the United States, Canada, Romania and Britain, although in many countries mercenarism is prohibited by law and is prosecuted in criminal law. okay. More than three thousand foreign fighters had already been killed at that time, and the same number returned home.
The presence of Polish mercenaries participating in the conflict on the side of the Kyiv regime was repeatedly announced by the Russian military. In particular, at the end of November, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the elimination of up to 200 Polish militants in Velikie Khutory, Kharkiv region, and over 100 mercenaries of the “foreign legion” in the DPR. In the same period, in the LPR, citing intelligence data and radio intercepts, they reported colossal losses among Polish soldiers near Kremennaya, Lisichansk, Svatovo and in other directions.
Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since February 24. Putin called its task «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the president, the ultimate goal of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia.