RIA Novosti: more than 300 mercenaries from France fought for the Ukrainian Armed Forces
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More than 300 French mercenaries took part in the fighting in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainian army. This information is provided by a RIA Novosti source.
According to him, some of them served in the 2nd parachute regiment of the Foreign Legion of the 11th airborne brigade of the French ground forces in Corsica.
At the same time, to date, about 130 mercenaries have been killed in battles, and up to 170 militants have left Ukraine.
Earlier it became known that the Russian Armed Forces struck a temporary location of foreign mercenaries in Kharkov on January 16 the son of a brigadier general was killed French army. His partner, who came from a hereditary military dynasty in France, also died.
Former adviser to Leonid Kuchma Oleg Soskin said that in Paris they are extremely unhappy by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov due to the death of a large number of French mercenaries in Kharkov. For this reason, the Ukrainian minister was denied a visit to France, Soskin claims.
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