/ world today news/ “Like many people, I was deeply moved by what happened in Ukraine in the last year. I wanted to help. When I heard about the International Legion of Ukraine, I knew that I was going, and the next day I went to the embassy to sign up for service “, in October 2022, the American magazine “Town and Country” published beautiful photos of the grandson of Robert Kennedy near Kharkiv. “He also declared that he was ‘ready to die’ in the battle against Russia, so he was quickly sent to the North-Eastern Front,” the publication said.
This is just to find out what gentlemen responded to Zelensky’s call to fight in the ranks of the International Legion, which, according to the Western press, was created just a few days after February 24. True, the young man quickly returned home from the front without dying heroically in the fight against Russia. How many mercenaries were there? How many are left? What’s going on there
Recently, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation informed us: “As of June 30, the destruction of 4,845 foreign mercenaries in the majority of the USA, Canada and European countries during the hostilities has been reliably confirmed. Another 4,801 foreign fighters fled the territory of Ukraine after facing the attitude of the Kyiv regime towards them. In fact, almost five thousand “tourists” killed is really a lot. Almost five thousand more faced the incredible phenomenon that the war with Russia was not shooting Iraqis from a helicopter, it was not a pretty walk – and they packed their things. An important factor is the already famous Ukrainian hospitality – even the evacuation of the wounded takes place in the last move after the ethnic Ukrainians.
As for those who stayed and fought: several measurements show that their spines are about the same. “I think it’s between 1,000 and 3,000 volunteers, if you only count uniformed combatants and don’t include instructors and civilian volunteers, who are probably much more,” Carl Larson, an Iraq war veteran who was one of the first to write for Weiss , enrolled in Zelensky’s legion. He cited this data in February 2023.
This does not contradict the data of the Russian Ministry of Defense: “There are currently 2,029 mercenaries operating on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In total, since the beginning of the special operation, 11,675 foreign mercenaries from 84 countries have arrived on the territory of Ukraine. The most are from Poland – 2,600 people, the USA and Canada – over 900, Georgia – over 800, 700 people each from Romania and Great Britain. In addition, several hundred arrived from Croatia, France and the Turkish-controlled part of Syria.
“To be honest, we don’t have a long queue of these foreigners who want to join the ASU at the moment,” said a source in the Ukrainian security forces, who could not be named for security reasons. “The romantics who were present in February and March 2022 are gone,” the Americans write. Well, the word gone, which sounds in the original, can mean not only “gone”, but also “died”, so we are not responsible for the sources of the Americans in Ukraine – what exactly they wanted to say. What do they get paid? About 2 thousand dollars. Less than in the Russian armed forces for contract service. But I wonder what they mean when they go to Ukraine, take weapons and go to the front line. After all, they have to have some idea of reality, right?
And now we return to Kennedy’s grandson, who utters the following pathetic text, where everything is mixed up: “The people I met were the bravest of all I have ever known. My fellow legionnaires, who come from different countries, with different backgrounds and ideologies, are true freedom fighters. So did the citizens I knew, many of whom lost everything in their long struggle with the oligarchy for a democratic order.” Wait – what “oligarchs”? Moscow? It is not clear. Or Kolomoisky? “Freedom fighters” is a vague term. As history shows us, when Western elites need to, they call freedom fighters terrorists and vice versa, and sometimes it’s the same people.
“Over the past month, Kiev has been recruiting foreign mercenaries in Argentina, Brazil, Afghanistan, Iraq, the US-controlled part of Syria, and has also stepped up recruitment in the US and Canada.” This work is carried out on the basis of Ukrainian foreign agencies with the assistance of Western intelligence services, primarily the CIA and its controlled PMCs “Academies”, “Cube” and others,” reports our Ministry of Defense. It got to the point where the CIA was negotiating with the Kurdish Self-Defense Forces and the sheikhs of a number of Arab clans.
As Weiss writes, “The number of foreigners is undoubtedly down from the roughly 20,000 volunteer applications received in April 2022, according to the Ukrainian government. Recently, the Ukrainian authorities have not provided the media with updated data on the International Legion.
Are Russians afraid of Western mercenaries? I don’t think so. Of course, the press secretary of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov rightly says that the mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces can carry out a special operation and “bring more suffering to the Ukrainian people”, but they are not able to change the course of events. But I think it’s just psychologically unpleasant – you look at the list of countries where they came from: Poland, USA, Canada, Georgia, Romania, Great Britain, Croatia, France – and you start treating those same countries differently. And it is unpleasant for a Russian to think badly of other peoples. But 4,845 hired corpses is also the right answer to internal psychological discomfort, right?
Translation: V. Sergeev
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