{"id":257124,"date":"2022-08-07T07:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257124"},"modified":"2022-08-08T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:43:08","slug":"russia-eliminates-dozens-of-foreign-fighters-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257124","title":{"rendered":"Russia eliminates dozens of foreign fighters in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Aug 6, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Dozens of foreign fighters from Ukraine\u2019s \u2018International Legion\u2019 have been killed by an airstrike in southeastern Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Providing a daily update on the progress of the military operation, Konashenkov revealed that \u201ca high-precision strike\u201d<\/em> was conducted by the Russian Air Force on a stronghold of the International Legion in the village of Vyvodovo in Dnepropetrovsk Region. As a result, \u201cmore than 80 foreign mercenaries and 11 units of special equipment were destroyed,\u201d<\/em> the military spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Kiev\u2019s international military unit was created in late February at the request of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and is officially known as the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Foreign fighters from the UK pose at a rail station in Lviv during April 2022. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

While its members consider themselves \u201cservicemen in the Ukrainian Armed Forces,\u201d<\/em> Konashenkov earlier stated that the best thing the foreign mercenaries could expect was a \u201clong term in prison.\u201d<\/em> He also revealed that while hundreds of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine had been killed by Russian long-range precision weapons \u201cshortly after their arrival,\u201d<\/em> most of the foreign fighters were eliminated \u201cdue to a low level of training and a lack of real combat experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In April, the Russian military estimated the number of foreign fighters at around 7,000, but a recent update suggests that less than 3,000 remain in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Apart from the International Legion members, over the past day, Russian forces have eliminated more than 400 nationalist fighters from the 46th airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces near the village of Belogorka in Kherson Region, according to Konashenkov. Over 70 fighters have been destroyed in three other Kherson Region villages, with about 150 personnel left injured, he added.<\/p>\n

Regarding its own casualties, Moscow has not updated the numbers since March, when it reported 1,351 military personnel killed and 3,825 wounded.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has conceded that his nation\u2019s armed forces are sustaining heavy losses. In July, he said that Kiev was losing around 30 personnel in combat per day, which was significantly less than in May and June, when the death toll was around 100-200 troops per day.<\/p>\n

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The Western MSM\u2019s coverage of events in Ukraine is diminishing as Russia steadily advances. For example, yesterday Moscow claims to have taken out than 80 mercenaries from Zelensky\u2019s International Legion along with nearly five hundred Ukrainian personnel and yet this got almost no mention in the Western MSM <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":253205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257129,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257124\/revisions\/257129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}