“On August 23, in the course of combat operations in the vicinity of the Yegorovka settlement, the DPR People’s Militia eliminated another foreign mercenary who was fighting on the side of Ukraine”, the official said in a statement released on her website,Telegram channel.

Morózova explained that next to the body, abandoned by the Ukrainian troops, documents were found with the name of American citizen, Alan Joshua, born in Memphis in 1998.

DPR reports indicate that US authorities and the head of the UN Human Rights Observation Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, were informed of the mercenary’s death.

“We also confirm our willingness to deliver his remains to his relatives for his burial,” stressed the ombudswoman.

Morozova stressed that mercenaries will not be considered as combatants and are not covered by international humanitarian law, she added that these people are deprived of any “immunity” in the conduct of hostilities.

Russia launched an armed operation in Ukraine on February 24, after the authorities of the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk asked for help to repel the increase in aggression and intense bombing by Kiev.

In his speech to inform about the beginning of the operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the objective is to protect the population of Donbass from the abuses and genocide of Kiev during the last eight years, in addition to “demilitarizing” and “denazifying ” Ukraine.

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