The Ministry of Defense announced the elimination of up to 300 foreign mercenaries near Nikolaev

The Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on the point of deployment of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, as a result, up to 300 people were eliminated. This was announced on Saturday summary Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special operation.

“Up to 300 militants were eliminated by a missile attack on the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Kalinovka, Mykolaiv region,” the ministry said in a statement.

In addition, as a result of massive fire damage, the losses of the Ukrainian army in the Kupyansk region of the Kharkov region and Shchurovo of the Donetsk People’s Republic amounted to more than 140 people killed and wounded.

The Russian Aerospace Forces also attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Mykolaiv region.

“More than 200 nationalists were killed, 3 tanks and 16 armored fighting vehicles,” the Ministry of Defense reported.

Turkish agency Anadolu reported earlier exchange prisoners of war between Moscow and Kyiv through the mediation of Ankara. Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, clarified on social networks that Kyiv returned 215 people, including more than a hundred fighters and five commanders of the Azov battalion (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). According to him, ten foreign mercenaries who are now in Saudi Arabia were also returned. In mid-August, five foreign mercenaries announced indictment in the court of the DPR.