“We warn those politicians ... in the Western community who - some subtly, some openly - stir up these moods and stimulate them, help mercenarism.
This is unacceptable, it only delays the completion of the entire SVO, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
On June 9, a court in the Donetsk People's Republic issued death sentences to British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Eslin, as well as Moroccan Saadun Brahim, who fought on the side of Ukraine.
On July 21, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that more than 600 Ukrainian militants were killed on July 16 as a result of a strike by Russian troops on a temporary deployment point of nationalists in a recreation center in the Odessa region.
Including were destroyed up to 120 foreign mercenaries.
In August, the DPR General Prosecutor's Office sent a criminal case to court against mercenaries from Croatia, Sweden and the UK.