“We have never used mercenaries.
I can assure you that people in Syria are minding their own business,” he said, when asked if Moscow was using foreign mercenaries, including from Syria, in Ukraine.
Earlier, CNN, citing relatives, reported the death in Ukraine of 22-year-old American Willy Joseph Cancel from a private military company (PMC).
Later, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, citing the Ukrainian embassy in Copenhagen, informed about the death of a mercenary from Denmark in Ukraine.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that since the beginning of the special military operation, the Kyiv regime has attracted to Ukraine, according to open data, about 7 thousand foreign mercenaries from 63 states.