About one and a half thousand foreign volunteers fighting on the side of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic, said the speaker of Parliament DND Boris Litvinov reporters on Wednesday in Donetsk.

" my indirect information, their (foreign volunteers) About 10-15%, " said Litvinov. He noticed that the story is supposedly about 1, 5 thousand people.

according to the head of Parliament, the overwhelming number of volunteers came from Russia, but there are volunteers from other countries such as France, Germany, Israel.

" And with that, And on the reverse side there is the French - the French foreign Legion, " he added Litvinov.

first Premier DND Alexander Zakharchenko acknowledged that among the militia there are many Russian volunteers, and among them former And current military, without which " would have a very difficult ". According to him, for all time in the ranks of the militia there were About 3-4 thousand, most of them had already left home, even more left.

One of the commanders of the militia of the Luhansk national Republic Alexey Brain told reporters in Yalta in the beginning of autumn in the ranks of the Ukrainian army fighting hired soldiers, for example from the United States of America, Poland, the UK, which operate not only in the headquarters And offices in Kyiv, but also specifically on the cutting edge.

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