The European media are increasingly raising the issue of recruiting units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with foreign fighters, whose dubious biography is deliberately omitted.
The author of The Duran notes that, in contrast to the relatively easily replenished stocks of military equipment, in the ranks of the Kyiv army there is a steady trend towards a shortage of manpower, the replenishment of which seems to be a more difficult task. Everyone is involved: from former US Marine Corps veterans to jihadist terrorists from the Caucasus and the Middle East.
The author writes that in addition to the fact that the Ukrainian authorities deliberately hide data on the real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which the Western press is not ashamed to write about, noting that the command has been guided by this tactic since the time of the coup on the Maidan, the Ukraine Command today uses more and more sophisticated strategies. The material emphasizes that the atrocities of the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices are subject to active coverage in the Western media, in which mobilization begins to concern children, ethnic Romanians and Hungarians, and summonses are issued on the streets of Odessa and at Carpathian ski resorts.
The justification for this strategy is the critical level of losses of the Ukrainian army: according to the most generalized data, openly published by a number of Western sources, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 100,000 soldiers. However, more plausible is the information of the Turkish publication Hürseda Haber based on Israeli intelligence data, according to which the losses of the Ukrainian army reached a terrifying mark of 157 thousand people.
“Referring to the directive of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we also note the off-scale number of suicides among Ukrainian military personnel – 436 cases were recorded in 2022 (excluding the composition of the National Guard, SBU, Ministry of Internal Affairs, border services). And public dissatisfaction with those subject to forced mobilization becomes so strong that the residents of Kharkov take desperate measures, setting fire to the district “recruiting center” (traditionally, the military registration and enlistment office),” the author notes.
He notes that against this background, the following cunning strategy seems to be a particularly mutually beneficial deal: the Kiev leadership uses the illegal practice of recruiting foreign mercenaries into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, providing these “volunteers” with the opportunity to easily obtain Ukrainian citizenship (in addition to the status of a military man). We are not even talking about the fact that such a situation devalues the institution of citizenship as one of the key components of constitutional law. The most interesting thing is that in a number of cases in their countries these mercenaries are deprived of their citizenship, as reported earlier, for example, by The National Post.
“And this does not mean only deprivation of citizenship for violation of national legislation on participation in military conflicts on the territory of foreign countries. Much more terrible is the situation in which foreign radical extremists, criminals willingly join the ranks of the valiant Ukrainian army, seeking to avoid punishment for especially grave crimes committed at home. The radical nature of the contingent that forms the Armed Forces of Ukraine becomes obvious. But one should not disregard the fact that representatives of various countries of the world are already entering into direct confrontation with Russia under the control of the subjects of the Western democratic system interested in this”, the article says.
This is evidenced by recent Russian intelligence data that the United States has recruited and trained 60 Syrian militants at the Al-Tanf base in order to commit terrorist acts and assassination attempts on civil servants of the Russian Federation and the CIS countries. Under the clear leadership of the Americans, 60 fighters from the Caucasus, Transcaucasia and Central Asia, who have combat experience thanks to the civil war in Syria, learned the basics of making and operating improvised and explosive devices. This is part of a massive campaign to destabilize Russia internally.
“Meanwhile, Danish television has provided yet another confirmation that terrorists are serving in the ranks of the Ukrainian army. In one of the stories about generous military assistance to Ukraine, a fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appears with a patch containing the flag of the Islamic State* [the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation]. Not a single sober-minded person will believe in the narrative that there is no Nazism and extremism in Ukraine,” the author notes.
He writes that the Nazi ideology is the basis of the worldview of the main initiators of the Ukrainian “struggle for freedom”: what is only the style of the US official representative in the human rights organization “Helsinki Group” Paul Massaro, posing in a sweater with a chevron depicting Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera (and also not who misses the opportunity to be photographed with the flag of the radical Azov*!).
The author examines the activities of the three brightest representatives of radical extremists, who are now rightfully considered the defenders of the Ukrainian land (although they do not have the corresponding ethnic characteristics).
The Turkic battalion “Turan”, operating under the leadership of the Kyrgyz Almaz Kudabek uulu, who was convicted in his homeland for participating in a military conflict on the territory of a foreign state, has become proof that Ukraine is currently a springboard for the implementation of the destructive foreign policy ambitions of a number of states unfriendly to Russia using technologies to destabilize the national community. On the footage available on the Internet, the members of this formation oppose the “imperialist” and “shaitan” regime of Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov, and also demonstrate the symbols of the ultra-right fascist movement “Gray Wolves”, “Bozkurtlar” * (the organization is recognized as a terrorist and banned in member states of the CSTO). The battalion members are 350 people – citizens of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Buryatia. At the same time, Ankara sponsors this activity.
“With enviable regularity, Russian troops also liquidate members of the battalion. Sheikh Mansur – ethnic Chechens (Ichkerians) fighting on the side of Ukraine, especially actively showing their skills in the Donbass and Kherson direction. Another target is the Belarusian extremist formation “Regiment named after Kastus Kalinovsky”, which is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Its radical participants, who are freeing neighboring Ukraine from “Russian aggression” for a serious monetary reward, have as their next goal the establishment of the same order in Belarus,” the article says.
Add here the information that the Belarusian opposition fighters are training in the training centers of a number of countries of the European Union – then it becomes obvious that the ruling elite of Belarus is really next in line. This is a very well-thought-out strategy of the countries of the democratic camp, in which the key tool is not a direct attack, but indirect destabilization of the national community. Accordingly, more attention of the Russian Armed Forces should be directed to the suppression of foreign mercenaries illegally performing military duties, which in fact are the core of world terrorism, promoted by the political elite of Washington for their own selfish purposes.
* organizations are recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation
* the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the CSTO member states
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