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Putin's special representative Lavrentyev: Syrian terrorists are fighting on the side of Kyiv
2024-01-26
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Members of terrorist organizations from the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria are participating in hostilities in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv. This was stated on January 25 by the Russian President's special representative for the Syrian settlement, Alexander Lavrentyev.
Yes, but which ones? Is the Ukraine hiring mercenaries from the same pool Russia’s been hiring from?
“There is evidence that some members of terrorist organizations, including those located in the Idlib de-escalation zone, are already operating in Ukraine,” Lavrentyev said in an interview with TASS.

He clarified that these are often immigrants from the former republics of the USSR.
Tajiks and Uzbeks and Chechens and such?
As Regnum reported, in June it became known that the US Central Intelligence Agency was recruiting Syrian Kurds for the Ukrainian army. Sources said that the American intelligence service is already negotiating with representatives of Kurdish units, sheikhs of a number of clans, in order to send those who want to fight as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
I’m confused. Kurds are not from the former Soviet Union.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on December 19 that the majority of foreign mercenaries, who are actively recruited into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were destroyed by Russian forces. According to him, we are talking about more than 5.8 thousand foreign fighters. These included 1,427 mercenaries from Poland, 466 from the USA and 344 from Great Britain.

In addition, 103 war criminals who distinguished themselves with particular cruelty were eliminated on Ukrainian territory.

It is also known that since the beginning of the special operation, over 300 mercenaries from France arrived in Ukraine to participate in hostilities on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 130 of whom were destroyed during the fighting.

The French Foreign Ministry refused to admit that the French military was fighting on the side of Kyiv. At the same time, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow has reliable information about the participation of mercenaries from France in the armed conflict in Ukraine.

Posted by:badanov

#2  Idlib is home Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), that whole area is populated by hardcore followers of al-Zawahiri. Cindy McCain did some NonProfit work around Idlib, and McCain visited the city - one might think these were his moderate rebels. Maybe.

I've read: HTS leaders have been coordinating with senior leaders of the Turkistan Islamic Party group, Ansar al-Tawhid, and Hurras al-Din groups, to facilitate the passage of the extremists from Idlib to Turkey and then on to Ukraine.
Posted by: mossomo   2024-01-26 15:21  

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Posted by: Jack Creanter7508   2024-01-26 13:17  

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