Russian MoD: More than a thousand foreign mercenaries eliminated in Ukraine

Moscow, SANA- The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that the Russian Armed Forces destroyed, with high-precision air missiles, an ammunition factory last night in Kyiv province.

In a press briefing, the official spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that operational-tactical aviation targeted 68 Ukrainian military facilities, 6 ammunition and fuel depots, and about 40 mobilization sites for combat equipment and manpower.

The spokesman added that artillery and missile forces bombed 814 targets, including 17 command centers, 111 artillery fire positions, 684 fortified centers and hostile manpower mobilization sites, in addition to destroying 10 drones in several towns.

Konashenkov indicated that there are 400 foreign mercenaries among the Ukrainian group currently besieged in the factory, according to the testimony of Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered to the Russian forces.

Konashenkov said that the number of foreign mercenaries brought in by Kyiv regime since the beginning of the special operation has reached 6,824 from 63 countries.

Manar Salameh /Ruaa al-Jazaer

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