Russia’s Army says nearly 2,000 foreign fighters including 102 Romanians killed in Ukraine

The Russian military says that 7,000 „foreign mercenaries” from dozens of countries have come to Ukraine since the start of the war and that it has killed nearly 2,000 of them, AFP reported.

Poland is the „absolute leader” of European countries, in terms of foreign fighters in Ukraine, followed by Romania and Britain, the ministry said on Friday.

Moscow claimed it had killed 102 out of 504 Romanian combatants in Ukraine,  as well as 378 Polish mercenaries, 214 mercenaries from the U.S., 162 from  Canada and 120 from Georgia.

Our lists, as of 17 June, contain mercenaries and weapons specialists in total from 64 countries. Since the end of the special military operation, 6,956 have come to Ukraine, 1,956 have already been eliminated, and 1,779 have gone back,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The ministry also published a table claiming to show the number of foreign combatants who’d arrived in Ukraine, ranked by nationality and by casualties, according to the Russian army.

The ministry said  59 French „mercenaries”, out of a total of 183 who came to fight in Ukraine have been killed since the start of the Russian offensive.

Since Russian launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, thousands of foreign volunteers – mainly Europeans – have come to Ukraine to aid Kyiv’s military forces.

Russia has presented the combatants as „mercenaries”, a pejorative term that suggests they are motivated by money.

Pro-Russian separatists recently sentenced two Britons and one Moroccan to death.

Ukraine and its Western allies say that if there are mercenaries on the front, they are in the Russian camp. Members of the Wagner paramilitary group, whose forces have fought in Syria, Libya and Mali have fought alongside Russia.

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