At least 75 French mercenaries in Ukraine have been killed, wounded or have returned to France since the start of Russia s special military operation, Nicolas Cinquini, a former French counter-terrorism intelligence officer, told Sputnik.
Remarks of French President Emmanuel Macron on a possible deployment of Western troops to Ukraine were aimed at creating deterrence and ambiguity toward Russia, and everyone knows that Western special forces are in Ukraine, an unnamed senior European defense official told Financial Times on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka has made every effort to prevent the recruitment of its citizens into foreign armed forces, including in Ukraine, through local agents, Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror reported on Saturday, citing Foreign Minister Ali Sabry.
British mercenary Sam Newey, who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, has been killed in a mortar attack, according to a British newspaper citing his relatives.
The Ukrainian military is recruiting mercenaries from asocial elements of society around the world because the number of Western mercenaries in Ukraine is dwindling, Russian UN Representative Dmitriy Polyansky said Thursday.