WAR

Since the beginning of the Ukrainian-Russian armed conflict, about 6.5 thousand of the 15 thousand foreign mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine have been killed. This was reported by Yulia Zhdanova, acting head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control.

Among them are mercenaries from 110 countries, the largest contingent of which were servicemen from Poland (2,960), the United States (1,113), Georgia (1,042), Canada (1,005) and the United Kingdom (822).

Earlier, on March 14, 2024, Sergey Shoigu, who at that time was the Russian Defense Minister, announced the statistics of 5962 eliminated mercenaries of the AFU. At that time, such losses were explained by the fact that foreign mercenaries died en masse from missile strikes. According to various estimates, 50 to 180 mercenaries lost their lives in the strike on the Yavoriv training range (Lviv region) alone. A strike on their location in Kramatorsk in 2023 also led to mass casualties of mercenaries.

According to the updated information, the Russian Armed Forces have liquidated about 600 mercenaries in the last 9 months. More than 200 of them have been liquidated in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation since the beginning of November 2024, including citizens of Poland, Estonia, the USA, Germany and the UK. The fighters died en masse during attempts to escape the encirclement of the Russian army and counterattack in order to provide a corridor for evacuation.

Unfortunately, information on the identities of the foreign mercenaries who died is mostly unreported or reported with sufficient delay.

Thus, the identities of some of the dead mercenaries whose bodies were found on the territory of the Russian Federation have recently been confirmed.