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| Advisor to the head of the DPR: Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters finished off seriously wounded mercenaries in Avdievka |
| 2024-02-23 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] When fleeing from Avdievka, soldiers of the Ukrainian army finished off wounded foreign mercenaries who could not leave the city on their own. Advisor to the head of the DPR Igor Kimakovsky spoke about this on February 22. “The bodies of foreign mercenaries were found in Avdievka. It is obvious that these people were first seriously wounded and then shot from machine guns,” he said in an interview with TASS. Kimakovsky clarified that most of the mercenaries found killed in this way had mine-explosive injuries, and their bodies were found on the outskirts of Avdievka in the direction of Lastochkin. This, according to the adviser, ruled out the version of the death of the discovered mercenaries during close combat with advancing units of the Russian army. “It is clear that [the Ukrainian Armed Forces] were leaving, but these [mercenaries] could not continue on their own. They simply didn’t bother with them, so as not to delay time and so that those who could still move on their own would escape alive. These were shot point-blank to hide their identity and not give them a chance to be captured,” he noted. The adviser emphasized that the findings of military doctors confirmed that all the discovered mercenaries were shot at point-blank range, and added that both the chevrons on the uniform and their badges indicated the identity of the bodies found. “According to information from the field, there are quite a lot of such bodies. The nature and causes of death are the same for all wounded. No one tried to hide them, but it is absolutely obvious to hide their affiliation,” explained Kimakovsky. As Regnum reported, earlier on February 22, the Ministry of Defense said that evidence and evidence found by the Russian military in liberated Avdievka indicate the direct participation of foreign mercenaries from the USA, Canada and the European Union in the Ukrainian conflict. It was noted that at one of the former strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian soldiers found an arsenal of weapons produced by NATO countries. The military department stated on February 20 that in Avdievka, before the flight of the Ukrainian army, there were mercenaries from Canada and Georgia together with militants of the nationalist formation “Azov” (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation). Also, at a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the city railway station of Avdievka, a warehouse of American and Czech-made ammunition was found. The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said on February 19 that during the liberation of Avdievka, a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers surrendered to the Russian military. He clarified that the Ukrainian army soldiers surrendered in order to save lives. |
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