About 45 thousand Muscovites are fighting in Ukraine, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said at the Territory of Meanings forum.
“On mobilization we have left about 20 thousand people <…>, contract workers and volunteers have also left already about 20 thousand. I do not know how many professional military left, but I think that not less than 5 thousand. That is, 45 thousand Muscovites are fighting in the NWO zone today”, TASS quoted Sobyanin as saying.
According to the mayor, more than 20 Muscovites were killed during the construction of defenses in the war in Ukraine, more than 100 more people were injured. Sobyanin added that “thousands” of Muscovites also work in the occupied territories.
At the same time, back on July 26, Sobyanin said that about 30 thousand Muscovites are fighting in Ukraine. According to him, ten thousand of them signed up for contract service, another 20 thousand were mobilized.