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About American mercenaries in Ukraine
2025-02-25
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of A_S_Sukonkin

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Writer Alexey Sukonkin on some interesting details of the life of American mercenaries in Ukraine.

ABOUT AMERICAN MERCENARIES IN UKRAINE
There will be a lot of interesting things now.

The beginning of the story is quite ordinary and banal: on one of the sections of the front (comrades asked not to name a specific direction) a certain military leader in the Ukrainian Armed Forces uniform came to our positions, whose intentions the forward patrol did not recognize (and did not want), and just in case shot him in the head, although he tried to wave his hands about something and smile happily. Falling, the character removed the tripwire and was additionally minced by a MON-50 mine.

Then it was already more interesting. In his pockets they found a phone, the contents of which raised many questions, in particular, a mercenary contract was found in it, from which it was concluded that the pieces of meat could have previously belonged to a foreign citizen, most likely an American. A survey of personnel showed that this character walked towards our positions confidently and as if not hiding, as if he knew that nothing bad would happen to him.

Now the most interesting part. After Trump's historic statement, USAID curtailed its activities around the world, including in Ukraine. Contractors were left without funding, including recruiting agencies responsible for paying salaries to mercenaries. And after telephone negotiations between the presidents of Russia and the United States (and after the demonstrative exchange of Mark Fogel for Alexander Vinnik), shifts began that no one could have foreseen before - a mechanism for the gradual return of American citizens from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was launched. What is characteristic, and I emphasize this, this procedure concerns exclusively American citizens. This process includes the removal of the bodies of dead US citizens and wounded soldiers undergoing treatment in Ukrainian medical institutions.

At the same time, assessing the situation, we can confidently say - recruiting centers stopped recruiting American citizens, and the American embassy in Kiev issued a warning about the undesirability of the presence of its citizens on the territory of Ukraine.

The mercenaries themselves are being informed by the US about the need to leave the combat zone, and this is proposed to be done both via the entry route and... by surrendering to Russian forces on the line of combat contact, and in the second case, they are allegedly guaranteed safety (according to the agreements reached between Russia and the US???). I cannot yet say that this is exactly true, but some facts (stopping funding, withdrawal of American mercenaries from Ukraine) force me to accept this point of view.

And as a cherry on the cake - the mercenary's mince was taken by some unknown comrades who strongly resemble some kind of special forces.
Now you have to live with it.

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