The Guardian: A number of Russian "Wagner" mercenaries were transferred from Libya to the Ukrainian Donbass front.

London, April 22, 2022 (LANA) - A report by the British newspaper "The Guardian" revealed that the Russian "Wagner Group" transferred most of its mercenary’s soldiers who were fighting in Libya to Donbass on the Ukraine front.

This came within the report it published about Russia's deployment of nearly 20 thousand mercenaries from Syria, Libya and other countries in its new offensive in the Ukrainian Donbass region.

The newspaper quoted a European official as saying: (The mercenaries were sent to the battle without heavy equipment or armored vehicles, and that estimates of mercenaries' involvement on the ground in eastern Ukraine range between 10 thousand and 20 thousand).

The newspaper quoted the European official as saying, that they have already witnessed some movement from Syria and Libya to the eastern Donbass region, and that these people are used mainly as a mass against the Ukrainian resistance, stressing that they are infantry that do not have any equipment or heavy vehicles.

The Guardian reported that the former Syrian soldiers were offered monthly salaries ranging from $600 to $3,000, depending on rank and experience, to fight in Ukraine.

The mercenaries are being pushed into the Russian attempt to seize as much of eastern Ukraine as possible, in what Western defense officials have described as a rush to achieve the kind of victory that Vladimir Putin could declare at the May 9 military parade in Moscow to commemorate World War II.

The British newspaper stated that it is difficult to determine the number of mercenaries and divide it between Syrians, Libyans and other fighters recruited by the Russian mercenary company "Wagner Group".

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