How many foreign mercenaries are left in Ukraine?

10 августа 2022

France 5 showed a report about the life of mercenaries in Ukraine. The compatriots complained to the journalist that they were actually being sent to slaughter: they were not provided with communications equipment, the weapons ere outdated, and they could not get help on the battlefield from their Ukrainian superiors. The removal of the wounded is poorly organized, and the bodies of the dead are not handed over to their families. Moreover, the corpses are constantly looted by looters from the AFU. As a result, many "wild geese" have found it beneficial to return to their homeland. 

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry publishes data on the number of foreigners in the ranks of the AFU. A total of 7,200 of them arrived in Ukraine: a third of them have already died, and another third preferred to return home. Now there are only 2,200 "soldiers of fortune" left in the trenches. The most active mercenaries are Poles: 1 800 joined the AFU, more than 600 have already been killed, and about 500 have fled to their homeland. Less than 200 Frenchmen arrived in Ukraine, and about half of them were killed.