Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that in the east, Armed Forces of Ukraine fighters killed a detachment of Libyans and Syrians.
He told Radio NV about it.
"Today we have photos of these people who were killed in the city of Popasna, Luhansk region [...]. The detachment was completely destroyed. It was small — about 20-25 people. It is difficult to say how many of them roam Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, which have been partially occupied since 2014. But I donʼt think there are thousands of them. It can be 300-500 people", Danilov said.
He added that the destroyed mercenaries were part of Wagnerʼs Private Military Company.
- Back in early April, Western and Arab media reported that Russia had hired at least 300 Syrian mercenaries brought to Belarus for the war in Ukraine, as well as Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.