MOSCOW, Dec 21 - RIA Novosti. More than 120 employees of American private military companies are present in the Donetsk region, they are equipping firing positions, preparing Ukrainian special forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
"The presence of more than 120 employees of American PMCs in the settlements of Avdiivka and Priazovskoye in the Donetsk region has been reliably established. They equip firing positions in residential buildings and socially significant facilities, train Ukrainian special operations forces and radical armed groups for active combat operations," Shoigu said at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
