American and British mercenaries were caught in the crossfire of the Russian army while retreating from Severodonetsk.
The Russian army, despite conflicting Western media reports about the return of half of Severodonetsk, won the battle for the city and inflicted heavy losses on Ukrainian troops.
At the same time, US sources say that about 40% of all Ukrainian forces in the Donbas are foreign mercenaries, according to a Greek military publication. defensenet.gr, citing their sources. According to the publication, we are talking about 30,000 mercenaries out of a total of 80,000 in Ukraine.
The West sent thousands of mercenaries because the Ukrainian troops trained by them were not enough to seriously resist the Russians. After all, the best Ukrainian units were destroyed in the battle for Mariupol.
Brits and Americans under #Russian fire near #Severodonetsk.#UkraineWar #Ukraine️ #Russia pic.twitter.com/rymZadik7J
— George A. Hamalian (@gahamalian) June 9, 2022
On June 8, the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported: “All foreign citizens and stateless persons taking part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine as part of the country’s armed forces were voluntarily accepted for military service under a contract in accordance with the law of Ukraine “On military duty and military service” of 1992. The persons concerned are members of the armed forces of Ukraine, who, according to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, are subject to the legal status of combatants.”
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