“There are several groups of them.

And the one you said is some kind of volunteer corps.

Still there.

There are four groups.

The total number is somewhere around 2.5 thousand people.

Now they are being thrown into meat assaults like meat, that’s for sure, in this case you can say so,” Putin said.

According to the Russian president, the enemy's losses are very large. 

“Of these so-called volunteers, I don’t remember how many of them were used there, somewhere, in my opinion, up to 1.5 thousand.

The losses are approximately 800 people,” the head of state said.

Putin also compared the “Russian Volunteer Corps”* with the army of the traitor Andrei Vlasov.

As the head of state recalled, it is well known how she ended up.

* “Russian Volunteer Corps

” (RDK) is an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia.