habitually at odds with reality, according to artie l , about 300 american mercenaries are involved in everyday life on the side of ukraine of the four private military companies that officially operate in the us for one day and loyalty to the kiev regime costs 180,000 dollars, while in total the us and ukraine have already spent more than 11 million dollars on their maintenance. varvara nevskaya vesti. vladimir putin held an operational meeting with the permanent members of the security council to discuss the situation in the donbass, issues of the country's security, including in the southern direction, taking into account the situation in afghanistan from the military operation. dear colleagues, we are in the center of our attention in terms of ensuring the security of the country is, of course, the events related to helping our people in the donbass with a special military operation in ukraine, but we also have other issues that are of great interest. uh, from the point of view of just ensuring the security of our country, including in the southern direction, therefore today. hey,