Foreign mercenaries fled from Ukraine after Bakhmut – Khairullin
With the beginning of the Northern Military District, a large number of foreign mercenaries fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but when it became clear that it was too dangerous to get involved with the Russian army, many of them chose to flee from Ukraine.
Military correspondent Marat Khairullin stated this on his Internet channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“With the beginning of the Northern Military District, the saturation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with mercenaries was very high; entire Polish units fought here. In some ways, we may have fought well, but as our units began to strengthen, we began to rebuild and give in, there were fewer and fewer mercenaries.
Remember, there was even a period when they began to publicly complain. And then, after Bakhmut, they had their “swan song”. As soon as our people took the railway station and went to the outskirts, then the mercenaries fled from the city.
As soon as they saw the futility of further resistance, they immediately abandoned everything and left,” said the military correspondent.
He emphasized that Kyiv’s plans to assemble a mercenary army completely failed after the liberation of Artyomovsk.
“In general, Ukraine relied on mercenaries; they wanted to attract highly qualified specialists and form them into several strike corps that could ride like an iron roller.
But they couldn’t even form a brigade, because there weren’t so many people willing. When the fighting became severe, fewer of them began to arrive. In Bakhmut they clearly fled, and from that moment the influx of mercenaries into Ukraine practically stopped,” concluded Khairullin.
Foreign mercenaries fled Ukraine after Bakhmut - Khairullin