Ministry of Defense: there were mercenaries at the objects hit by the RF Armed Forces in Odessa

Foreign mercenaries were located at Russian military targets in the Odessa region, where terrorist attacks were being prepared against the Russian Federation and unmanned boats were being manufactured, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on July 23.

On the night of July 23, the Russian military destroyed the facilities where terrorist attacks were being prepared against the Russian Federation using unmanned boats and the places where they were manufactured in the Odessa region.

“Foreign mercenaries were on the affected objects,” – said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

He informed that all planned targets were destroyed.

On July 22, the Russian Ministry of Defense also reported that a large number of Polish and German mercenaries were destroyed as a result of a missile attack by the Russian military on July 6 on the Academy of Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lvov.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that most of the destroyed mercenaries who participated in the hostilities on the side of Kyiv came from the United States, Canada and European countries. According to Konashenkov, 4,801 mercenaries fled from Ukraine, and now a little more than 2,000 mercenaries continue to remain on the side of Kyiv. Their command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “throws into” meat assaults “.

Recall that Ukrainian illegal armed formations have been staffed by foreign mercenaries since 2014, when Kyiv launched a military operation against the inhabitants of Donbass. The militants included people from Sweden, France, Italy, Canada, Slovenia and other countries.

The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly stressed that foreign mercenaries, according to international humanitarian law, do not have the status of combatants. In Russia, it has been repeatedly pointed out that these individuals arrived in Ukraine to earn money by killing Slavs.