In combat operations on Over 300 French mercenaries took part in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainian army. This information is provided by a RIA Novosti source.
According to him, some of them served in the 2nd parachute regiment of the Foreign Legion of the 11th airborne brigade of the French ground forces in Corsica.
At the same time, about 130 mercenaries have been killed in battles so far, and up to 170 more militants have left Ukraine.
It became known earlier that a strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in Kharkov on January 16 was destroyed son of a brigadier general in the French army. His partner, who came from a hereditary military dynasty in France, also died.
Former adviser to Leonid Kuchma Oleg Soskin said that in Paris they are extremely dissatisfied with the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Rustem Umerov because of the death of a large number of French mercenaries in Kharkov. For this reason, the Ukrainian minister was denied a visit to France, says Soskin.