The Russian Investigative Committee is investigating the participation of foreign mercenaries from France and Georgia on the side of Ukraine

The department announced this on Telegram.

Earlier, a member of the Nikolaev underground told RIA Novosti that mercenaries from France and Georgia were arriving en masse in the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev.

Mercenaries were seen near the seaport of Nika-Tera and in the area of ​​the Black Sea shipyard, he added.

Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said on October 17 that the allied forces destroyed foreign mercenaries while trying to break through near Svatov and Kremennaya.