“In the area of the settlement of Sinkovka, intelligence agencies of the Russian Armed Forces located a group of saboteurs communicating with each other in English,” he told RIA Novosti.
The military conducted more detailed reconnaissance and identified the exact location of the enemy.
“After the strike, there were calls for help and evacuation on the radio. It also became known that out of a group of 12 people, five militants survived, two of them were seriously wounded,” the source said.
On April 4, the Ministry of Defense announced that Russian troops hit a Ukrainian temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries in the Merefa area of the Kharkov region.