Mercenaries are being prepared for urban warfare in Donbas, Spokesman of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) Andriy Lysenko has said.
"The enemy is actively training its mercenaries. According to the operational data, in March, members of illegal armed formations were trained on six training grounds on the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.
"[We] have also established that the training in urban warfare continues in Rostov region. Up to 1,500 soldiers of Russian Armed Forces' special units are involved there," Lysenko said.
