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Russia claims strike near Polish border killed ‘up to 180 foreign mercenaries’
Screen capture from video allegedly showing the Yavoriv military range in Ukraine, near the border with Poland, that was hit in a Russian missile strike, March 13, 2022. (Twitter)
MOSCOW — Russia says that an airstrike it carried out in Ukraine, near the Polish border, killed foreign citizens who had joined Kyiv’s army in its fight against Russia.
“As a result of the strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large cache of foreign weapons were destroyed,” Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov says, a statement that cannot be independently verified by AFP.
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