RT.com – Sept 24, 2022
Up to 300 foreigners fighting for Kiev against Moscow have been killed in Nikolayev Region in southern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Saturday.
“Up to 300 militants were eliminated by a missile attack on the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the area of the village of Kalinovka, Nikolayev Region,” the ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, announced during his daily briefing.
A large number of foreign combatants have reportedly lost their lives fighting for Ukraine. Earlier this week, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claimed that Russian forces and the militias of the Donbass republics had eliminated more than 2,000 foreign mercenaries.
As of September 21, 1,000 foreigners remained in the ranks of the Ukrainian military, according to the minister, whereas in April the number was estimated at 3,000. Saturday’s strike would leave only 700, by those calculations.
Russian forces also killed more than 200 Ukrainian troops in Nikolayev Region, and almost as many more in Kharkov Region and in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Konashenkov further announced.
The military spokesman also revealed during the briefing that in the vicinity of the village of Sergeyevka, in southeastern Dnepropetrovsk Region, a Russian fighter shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 that had been “converted to use American HARM anti-radar missiles.”
Since the launch of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in late February, Moscow has been warning Western countries to stop “pumping up” Ukraine with weapons, arguing that it would only prolong the conflict. However, in the wake of Russia’s recent announcement of a partial mobilization of reservists, Kiev’s supporters, including the US and UK, have pledged to sustain or increase their military assistance to Ukraine.
On Friday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky admitted that his country’s forces have been suffering at least 50 casualties a day.
He claimed, however, that the Russian side was losing several times more. Zelensky’s comments came soon after Shoigu’s announcement that Russia’s forces have lost 5,937 troops since the beginning of the military offensive. According to the minister, the losses on the Ukrainian side were ten times higher, at an estimated 61,000 soldiers dead.
Oh, this brings me Sunday joy!
As I predicted some while ago, returned Brits have been feted as heroes in the national press and are now spinning lurid tales of torture (for men who have been tortured, they look well on it, but the typical THICKBrit media consumer won’t see the obvious). Releasing them was a serious PR mistake by Russia. When killed or captured, they should have simply disappeared.
But the Source leads to a dead link!!
A pity, because this is written in Grown Up language rather than The BBC-Infantile-Emotive-Drivel House Style.
And RT doesn’t TELL you, BBC style, ”there is no basis for what Zelensky said’ , even though the weaselly multi-millionaire puppet is lying his coke-encrusted comedy-actor socks off.
Honestly, we need a proper working link to RT, just for some Fresh Air –
It leads to a dead “link” because RT.com is now blocked in the UK.
“But the Source leads to a dead link!!” – hang on, Guy. download the ‘Brave’ browser. Then insert the link (https://www.rt.com/russia/563462-foreign-fighters-ukraine-killed/) and there before your amazed gaze is the RT report!
use the TOR browser to access RT
If the released men had been foreign fighters against the real invader America in Iraq, then captured, not only would they have spent the last 20 years in Gitmo it’s most likely they’d have been water-boarded.
Indeed RT is blocked in the entire (RCSE) the Rothschid Communist States of Europe, and only accessible via TOR
But they just swapped 55 Russian POW’s for 215 Ukrainians including Azov war criminals and a bunch of mercs that were sentenced to death in the Donbass for crimes against civilians including that british scumbag Aiden whatever his last name is.
WTF? If you still think Vlad is the guy think again.
Some really good info on this on SouthFront and the Slavland Chronicles websites.
Needless to say some hardcore Russian patriots and former Putin fans are not happy about this.