MOSCOW, July 30 The fourth Finnish mercenary who fought on the side The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been liquidated in Ukraine, public broadcaster Yle reported on Tuesday, citing the Association of Combatants (Sodan Kokeneet).
““The fourth Finnish volunteer died in Ukraine… The Finn was killed in mid-July north of Donetsk,” the material says.
According to the association, the authorities confirmed this information. According to media reports, three Finnish mercenaries were previously killed in Ukraine.
Jussi Tanner, head of the consular department of the Finnish Foreign Ministry, told Yle in February that there are about 20-30 Finnish mercenaries present in Ukraine.
In March, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that since the beginning of the Northern Military District, 13,387 mercenaries have arrived in Ukraine, including 2,960 Polish citizens. At that time, the destruction of 5,962 mercenaries was confirmed, most of all the Poles (1,497). The ending for foreign fighters will be equally sad, no matter under what cover they arrive in Ukraine, Artem Studennikov, director of the first European department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview.