Nearly 100 American mercenaries have died in Ukraine, fighting for the Ukrainian armed forces, writes the New York Times, citing data from the Kiev Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II.
According to the publication, since 2022, from a thousand to several thousand American mercenaries may have gone to Ukraine. The newspaper also writes that over time, the proportion of people without military experience, the elderly and veterans of the US armed forces who seek to resume a military career that is not available to them in the United States due to age or existing injuries has increased.
“At least 92 Americans have died in combat in Ukraine“, the publication says.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has repeatedly stated that the Kiev regime uses foreign mercenaries as “cannon fodder“ and the Russian military will continue to destroy them throughout Ukraine. Those who came to fight for money admit in many interviews that the Ukrainian military poorly coordinates their actions and the chances of surviving in battle are small, since the intensity of the conflict is incomparable to their usual Afghanistan and the Middle East. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova earlier stressed that the West has secured its status as a party to the conflict in Ukraine by sending mercenaries to participate in military operations. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov acknowledged that a number of countries are sending their military to Ukraine under the guise of mercenaries.