“As a result of strikes with high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces, three points of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the areas of the settlements of Krasny Liman and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Donetsk People’s Republic were hit,” the statement says.

Earlier, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that the Ukrainian command sent detachments of foreign mercenaries armed with NATO-style weapons to the cities of Bakhmut (Artemovsk) and Soledar.