During a special operation, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the training centres of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Starichi and at the military training ground Yavorovsky with high-precision long-range weapons and destroyed up to 180 foreign mercenaries. 

This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov on the morning of March 13 he said. Konashenkov added that these facilities housed a training and combat coordination point for foreign mercenaries, as well as a storage base for weapons and military equipment coming from foreign countries.

‘As a result of the strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed,’ the Defense Ministry spokesman added. He also stated that the Russian military will continue to destroy foreign mercenaries who have arrived on the territory of Ukraine.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that in recent days, Ukrainian nationalists and mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine from the United States, Great Britain, Israel and Europe have increasingly attacked Russian doctors and medical special vehicles.

The increasing use of private mercenary forces by the United States could pose a threat to the democratic accountability of armed forces, author and former private military contractor Sean McFate told media. Source