TASS writes about this with reference to the representative of the pro-Russian underground, Sergei Lebedev.

According to him, new groups of mercenaries arrived in Kharkov - including militants from the Chechen battalion, Georgia and France, as well as the RDK.

In addition, among the mercenaries there are citizens of the Baltic states, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania, he added.

Lebedev clarified that the mercenaries brought equipment and ammunition.

Earlier, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that the Ukrainian embassy in Dushanbe is recruiting mercenaries to participate in battles against the Russian army.

As the Russian Foreign Ministry reported, Moscow is aware of the participation of Swedish mercenaries in hostilities on the side of the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime.

* “Russian Volunteer Corps

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