About 200 Mercenaries from Croatia Arrive in Ukraine

About 200 mercenaries from Croatia arrived in Ukraine last week via Polish territory and joined one of the nationalist battalions in the southeastern part of the country. This information was disclosed in a conversation with reporters by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

“According to Zelensky, about 16,000 foreign mercenaries will arrive in Ukraine to compensate for the crushing military failures of the Ukrainian forces. A visa-free regime has been officially introduced for them,” said Konashenkov.

He clarified that “only last week, about 200 mercenaries from Croatia arrived in Ukraine through Polish territory, joining one of the nationalist battalions in the southeastern part of the country.”

It should be recalled that early in the morning on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to carry out a special military operation against Ukraine, as the LPR and DPR had appealed for assistance.