Overview
- Argentine media identified the dead as José Adrián Gallardo, 53, Ariel Achor, 25, and Mariano Franco, 47.
- The unit had completed its first assault mission at the 'zero line' and was withdrawing with two captured Russian soldiers when it was detected from the air.
- During the retreat one Argentine was killed by a mine, and local official Oleg Grigorov said Russian forces then launched dozens of drones and guided aerial munitions that also killed the Russian prisoners.
- Two other Argentines in the team were wounded, and a Colombian fighter was reported as an additional fatality.
- The three Argentines were volunteers or private contractors, not members of Argentina’s armed forces, and there is no consolidated official national tally of Argentine casualties in Ukraine.