{"id":257632,"date":"2022-08-21T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257632"},"modified":"2022-08-23T06:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:46:03","slug":"russia-announces-the-death-of-20-us-mercenaries-during-airstrike-in-kharkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257632","title":{"rendered":"Russia announces the death of 20 \u00abUS mercenaries\u00bb during airstrike in Kharkov"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Daniel Stewart \u2013 msn.com Aug 20, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Russian Army announced Saturday the death of about twenty &#8220;American mercenaries&#8221; in an air strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkov, in a series of bombings carried out during the last hours that killed about 300 fighters of the Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<p>According to the main spokesman of the Russian Army, General Igor Konashenkov, the attack, carried out with &#8220;high-precision weapons&#8221;, took place in the vicinity of the locality of Andreevka, a small village located just in front of Donetsk, halfway between the strategic cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">In addition to these &#8220;mercenaries&#8221;, the shelling has killed another 80 Ukrainian troops, members of the ultra-nationalist Kraken formation and other foreign paid fighters, according to the additional statement published by the Russian Defense Ministry on its website.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">In addition, General Konashenkov has reported that another Russian shelling has killed about 200 Ukrainian fighters in the Dnepropetrovsk region, an attack that has &#8220;almost completely&#8221; destroyed the battalion of the 110th territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he said at a press conference reported by the TASS news agency.<\/p>\n<p>As far as infrastructure is concerned, Russian forces reported early this morning the downing of a drone over the main building of the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol, with no personal injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">Crimean Governor Sergei Aksionov confirmed the activation of anti-aircraft defenses in the western area. &#8220;The target was destroyed without casualties or damage,&#8221; he has said on social networks, in a message in which he has also called for calm among the population, according to TASS agency.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">To this must be added, again according to the Russian Army, the destruction of 13 Ukrainian rockets targeting the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in Kherson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/russia-announces-the-death-of-20-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 300 fighters &#8212; including up to 20 U.S. \u2018mercenaries\u2019 &#8212; were killed in airstrikes in Kharkov Region, the Russian Defense Ministry announced in its Saturday briefing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"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-257632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257632","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=257632"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257702,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257632\/revisions\/257702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}