Mercenaries From US, UK, Germany, Latvia Fight for Ukraine, Captured Polish Mercenary Says
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - In the end of October, several foreign mercenaries attempted to invade the Russian Bryansk region, four of them were eliminated, and items proving that they were natives of foreign countries were found on the killed saboteurs, the Russian Federal Security Service reported.
Mercenaries from the US, UK, Germany, Latvia and many other countries are taking part in combat operations on the side of Ukraine in the so-called foreign legion, a captured Polish mercenary told Sputnik.
"Most of the people are from Colombia, from Brazil. And besides, when I served, there were soldiers from the United States, from Croatia and Germany, I saw a guy from Norway, from Latvia. There was one from England. And from Taiwan. Soldiers from Taiwan served with me," the mercenary said.
Active servicemen from NATO countries are fighting on the Ukrainian side, head of the Russian administration of the Kharkov Region Vitaly Ganchev told Sputnik in October.
The Russian authorities are collecting information about foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine, over 4,000 are already on the list, and at least 785 mercenaries have been brought to criminal responsibility, acting head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control Yulia Zhdanova said in an interview with Sputnik in early October.