Russia claimed on Saturday to have killed “
up to 80
” Polish fighters in a bombardment in eastern Ukraine, where fighting is raging between forces from Kiev and those from Moscow.
"
Up to 80 Polish mercenaries, 20 armored fighting vehicles and eight Grad multiple rocket launchers were destroyed in high-precision weapons strikes on the Megatex zinc plant in the Konstantinovka locality
", in the region of Donetsk, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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He also claimed that "
more than 300 Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries, as well as 35 heavy weapons were destroyed in the space of one day in Mykolaiv
", in the south of Ukraine.
The Russian ministry did not specify whether the bombardments on this city had been carried out on Friday or Saturday.
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