The agreement came after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Washington in November.
Ms Kelanic described the decision as reckless and not in the U.S. interest.
The spokesperson said several other key fighters sustained severe injuries as they fled under intense military pressure.
The battalion will be stationed in Omu-Aran, the headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area.
Three oil tankers carrying Saudi crude to China and India made U-turns in the Red Sea on Tuesday following a threatened attack from Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militia.
The armed men “kidnapped a young man, Alhaji Tukur, in my area who was their target”, a source told The Gazette.
President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Mykhailo Drapatyi as the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, after dismissing Oleksandr Syrskyi.
A statement by Mohammed Goni, the acting spokesperson for the operation, said the suspects were arrested on Monday at about 1:30 p.m.
Mr Syrskyi’s dismissal came days after Mr Zelensky fired Ukraine’s defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, a decision that sparked protests across the country.
Police recovered 285 pieces of vandalised NNPC pipelines.
