Russia on Tuesday claimed the deaths of 391 foreign fighters in Ukraine in the past three weeks, including one the Russian Defense Ministry identified as Portuguese.
In addition to the “mercenaries” shot down by Russian forces, the ministry said that in the same period, 240 foreign fighters fled Ukraine and 151 arrived in the country that Russia invaded on February 24.
“Over the past three weeks, the number of mercenaries in Ukraine has decreased from 3,221 to 2,741 as a result of offensive actions by units of the Russian Armed Forces and people’s militias of the Luhansk and Donetsk republics,” the Ministry of Defense said. Russian defense in a statement. .
The ministry published on the Telegram social network a list of mercenaries by country, in which it refers to the arrival of 105 from Portugal from the start of the conflict.
Of this total, 20 are listed as dead and another 20 as fledso there would be 65 left in Ukraine, according to data released by Moscow.
Regarding the previous table, released on June 17, Portugal appears with two more arrivals, one more death and four more departures from Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Poland tops the list of foreigners fighting Moscow’s forces in Ukraine, with 1,835 arrivals since the invasion.
In the past three weeks, Russian forces have shot down 166 Poles, the ministry said, bringing the number of Polish fighters killed since the start of the war to 544.
Poland has borders with Ukraine and Belarus, a country allied with Moscow, and also with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, in the Baltic Sea.
The list published by Moscow includes mercenaries of 65 nationalities34 from European countries, 12 from Asia, nine from America, eight from Africa and two from Oceania.
The Russian ministry said it was identifying foreigners offering to fight for Ukraine and revealed the names of two Britons and three Americans who allegedly arrived on July 6 at an accommodation center at a specified address in the Polish city of Zamosc.
Source: Observadora
