Two American veterans, who were helping Ukraine fight against Russia, are missing amid reports they've been captured by Russian-backed separatists.
RELATED: NATO considers sending more weapons to Ukraine | USA TODAY
» Subscribe to USA TODAY:
» Watch more on this and other topics from USA TODAY:
» USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR.
#Ukraine #Russia #Travel
Dying for someone else’s country is a fool’s errand.
The defence department regrets to inform you …
Who cares? They weren’t there for America..🤮
🤣🤣🤣
My hat off to them.
They are doing for a good cause.
But they chose to go and fight they understood the risk
Lies lies lies
Maybe they thought they were going there just to see 4th July fireworks and will have drinks, eat wings and scream loud.
Not my problem!
I open Krug champagne for this news, Moet & Chandon for news of court verdict and vintage Dom Perignon for the firing squad …. 🍺🍺🍺😁😁😁
Play stupid game get stupid prize, serve you rights cocky hotshots
Hundreds of western mercenaries are killed by artillery and airstrikes and nobody even bother to inform their relatives what happened to them. Such a fuss about these two.
Being a mercenary is still a bad thing right?
“Against the backdrop of the Kiev regime’s mounting military failures and massive daily losses in manpower and equipment, the flow of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine has not only decreased, but is actually turning in the opposite direction.
Despite the Kiev regime’s efforts and increased payments, the process of mercenaries leaving to the “other world” or back to their countries of residence has not been stopped by the Kiev leadership.
Recent empty statements about almost “20,000” foreigners “fighting” against the Russian Armed Forces are just plain lies.
As we have already noted, the Russian Defence Ministry monitors and records the presence in Ukraine of every representative of this international gathering of “headless horsemen”.
Moreover, it is not only mercenaries directly involved in combat operations as part of Ukrainian units that are now included in our databases. We also take into account the trainers who have come to train, assist in the operation and repair of Western weapons supplied to Ukraine.
We will publish these statistics today.
For example, among European countries, Poland is the undisputed leader in terms of the number of mercenaries both arriving and dying. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 1,831 people have arrived in Ukraine, of whom 378 have already been killed and 272 mercenaries have departed for their homeland. It is followed by Romania with 504 arrivals, 102 deaths and 98 departures. The UK is in third place: 422 arrivals, 101 deaths, 95 departures.
Among the Americas, Canada leads the way: 601 arrivals, 162 deaths, 169 departures. The USA comes second: 530 arrivals, 214 deaths, 227 departures.
From the Middle East, Transcaucasus and Asia the largest number, 355 mercenaries, came from Georgia, of whom 120 died and 90 left Ukraine. Then there are 200 terrorist fighters redeployed from the US-controlled areas of Jazira region in Syria. To date, 80 have been eliminated and 66 have left Ukraine.
In total, our lists as at June 17, 2022, include mercenaries and weapons operating specialists from 64 countries. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 6,956 people have arrived in Ukraine, 1,956 have already been eliminated and 1,779 have left.
As long as 3,321 mercenaries are alive, not yet captured, or have not yet escaped to the Ukrainian border.
Detailed information is published on the Russian Ministry of Defence’s information resources on the Internet.”
Russian Defence Ministry Briefing Friday 17th June 2022
Maybe they are just making Bi Racial commercials something very new in Ukraine