Bohdan Okhrimenko, head of the Secretariat of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, stated this, according to Ukrinform."More than 18,000 foreign citizens... from 128 countries are fighting on the side of the Russian Federation. And we have evidence that 3,388 have already died," he stated.Okhrimenko emphasized that the scale of foreign involvement in the Russian army is extremely large."With mercenaries alone from other countries, citizens of other countries, whom the Russian Federation uses in the war against our state, it can exceed the number of armed forces of some European countries. This is a significant resource that the Russian Federation uses to promote its 'Russian world' ideology," claims the head of the Coordination Headquarters Secretariat.According to him, the scale of mobilization of indigenous peoples and foreigners in the Russian Federation this year reached the level of the entire 2024 period in nine months."Regarding the mobilization of the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation, the figures are quite interesting. In 2022 - about 200-300 people, in 2023 there was a huge surge in the mobilization of mercenaries and the signing of contracts with citizens of other countries, in 2024 - almost seven thousand, and in just nine months of this year, the figure is identical to the 2024 figure," Okhrimenko said.