Aidar soldier
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Efterretningsvæsnet i den selvproklamerede Donetsk Folkerepublik (DPR) har afsløret tilstedeværelsen af udenlandske lejesoldater i de østlige Ukrainske byer, Artemovsk og Mariupol, udtalte en talsmand for DPR's Forsvarsministerium onsdag.

"En gruppe på omkring 100 tyrkiske lejesoldater er ankommet i Mariupol. Deres vigtigste mål er at udføre undergravende virksomhed rettet mod både civile og militære mål i kystområderne af både DPR og Rusland", fortalte en talsmand journalisterne.

Talsmanden tilføjede, at omkring 200 lejesoldater med identifikationstegn fra den Ukrainske Hæf men som talte Polsk, Slovakisk og Tyrkiske sprog, var ankommet i Artemovsk.


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Similar people, of Turkic and Middle Eastern appearance, have also appeared recently in large numbers in the following localities of the Kherson region: Chaplynka, Kalanchak, Novotroitsk, Genichensk, Vinogradovo, Abrikosovka, Mayachka, Krasny Schaban, Nikolaevka and others. There arrive several dozens such people a day.
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DPR's Defense Ministry also noted the deployment of military vehicles near the contact line between forces from Ukraine and the self-proclaimed republic.

The Ukrainian government has been conducting a military operation in the country's eastern regions since April 2014.

In February, Kiev and the representatives of Donbass independence supporters signed a deal on Ukrainian reconciliation in Minsk, including a ceasefire and the withdrawal of weapons from the line of contact. Article 10 of the agreement calls for the pullout of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries from Ukraine.