Admiral Chekov
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A site for tracking foreign mercenaries in Ukraine has been launched by Russian-affiliated Internet sources
https://foreigncombatants.ru/en
https://foreigncombatants.ru/en
Ah, i see another order for shilling came through from Kremlin.Source: "Typical Donetsk", a group by & for Donetsk residents in VKontakte (a Russian social network)
Eventually, Stanislav decided to confess. He was stripped of the bag on his head and placed at the table. Then he saw what his cell looked like: there were eight people – four “spies and saboteurs,” and three more were local entrepreneurs who supported the “republic.”
“For the prisoners to ‘recall better,’ they brought them to the ‘cafeteria,’ an interrogation room,” Stanislav explains, “There was a ‘tapik’ in the basement – a field phone set used to generate the electric current.
“If only they stopped torturing you after your forced confessions! But we were under everyday moral and physical terror. I remember hearing the steps down the corridor and thinking, ‘Let it be not after me.’
“They open iron doors and get a victim out to beat with fists, feet, a baseball bat, a gun-butt. In cells, in corridors, at work. Day and night. Up to the point when they break your ribs or you lose consciousness. Some couldn’t survive it. But we don’t know the first or last names of those killed.”
Guess we can't say "Russian World" doesn't spread the light of education to those it visits.Oleh Hlaziuk, a philosophy teacher from Torez, was taken captive on two occasions. Firstly in 2014, he experienced a faked execution by gunfire. On his second arrest on 24 August 2017, he was taken to a prison. He was “convicted” of anonymously writing and supplying materials to Radio Liberty and sentenced to 16 years. His particular crimes were referring to the illegal republics as “territories occupied by Russia” and writing “DNR” in quotation marks.
The ex-prisoner told journalists of RFE/RL that Russians were brought into the self-proclaimed republics to teach how to torture.
The more large Ukrainian units get destroyed/choose to surrender in the Donbass region, the more active Ukrainian artillery becomes, shelling civilian areas in Donetsk and other towns. This goes both for units that can hit Donetsk from long distance and for the Ukrainian artillery remnants that are still holed up inside DPR/LPR/Russian-controlled territory, using locals as human shields. Military equipment supplied to the Kiev-based regime by US and NATO is also being used in the shelling of Donetsk. The residents of Donetsk have suffered regular Ukrainian army shellings for 8 years, but they consider the current situation unprecedented, only comparable to the events of 2014-15. The people of Donetsk have grown used to the sounds of shells/rockets since 2014, and more or less know of their destructive capabilities. Now, unfamiliar US/NATO ammunition hits Donetsk (for example, civilians report that some types of shells fly quietly, so there's no time to take cover before they explode). Dozens of civilians were killed in Donetsk and other DPR/LPR towns in the last several weeks. Not that this is anything fundamentally new - Ukrainian army had been using heavy military equipment against civilians in Donbass since 2014. The current shellings seem to be aimed at forcing the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk to lose hope for a better future. However, those people didn't start the war. Unlike the Kiev-based radical nationalists, they never painted any nation as savage/subhuman; they never brought up their kids to hate their close neighbors - and never will. The people of Donetsk and Luhansk have never lost hope that the 8-year-long nightmare will end. They're certainly not willing to give up now
Shelling of the outskirts of Donetsk (15.06.2022)
Miner rescue station in Donetsk, damaged by the shelling (17.06.2022)
Shelling of Donetsk (17.06.2022)
Shells and rockets hitting blocks of flats in Donetsk (18.06.2022)
Aftermath of the shelling of the "ExpoDonbass" exhibition center in Donetsk (18.06.2022)
Aftermath of shells hitting the "Vishnevyi" ("Cherry") residential complex and a block of flats on the Vannikov St. (Kuibysevski district) in Donetsk today (20.06.2022)
Source: "Typical Donetsk", a group by & for Donetsk residents in VKontakte (a Russian social network)
A paid propagandists then, openly working for Russian state owned media.Patrick Lancaster
And yet it's DPR sentencing prisoners of war to death... exactly like fascists.There could be other English translations of this poem out there. The name mystery could be the author's way of upping the hype, or it could be due to author's unwillingness to appear "too patriotic". Or, it could be some other reasons. The poem deals with such issues as the ongoing biased/unrealistic portrayal of Russia in the West (which never really ceased, only changed forms through the ages), and the refusal of the West to truly admit own mistakes (such as giving birth to fascism/supporting neo-nazism) and preferring to remain blind to some things, such as the deaths of civilians in Donbass at the hands of Ukrainian army since 2014
A site for tracking foreign mercenaries in Ukraine has been launched by Russian-affiliated Internet sources
https://foreigncombatants.ru/en
From https://foreigncombatants.ru/en, a site that lists foreign mercenaries in Ukraine:
Giuseppe Donini can be considered a professional mercenary: he was a member of the French Foreign Legion, was a part of private military missions in Africa and Near East
In 2014 Donini took part in war for Donbass, in battle for the Donetsk Airport. According to his own words, he bought ammunition himself. Ukrainian equipment leaves much to be desired.
During the conflict he joined neo-Nazi oriented detachment “Azov”
Some time ago he returned to Italy and in December of 2021 he messaged that he is going to return to Ukraine to fight against Russia. After the start of Russian special war operation in Ukraine he has left Italy and deleted his accounts in social networks, so there is absence of definite information about his participation in current conflict.
All attempts to contact his relatives have been fruitless: they don’t want to comment this story, especially since it’s illegal in Italy
Donini (center, top row) with his "Azov" mates, making Nazi salutes. Donbass, 2015
You have a point.They do not declare war,and officially fight for those fake republics,so....I should think about that earlier.If foreign volunteers are considered mercenaries and executed as such, the same BS logic should be applied to consider every Russian soldier in the Ukraine as a "mercenary".
From Главная страница, a site that lists foreign mercenaries in Ukraine:
Giuseppe Donini can be considered a professional mercenary: he was a member of the French Foreign Legion, was a part of private military missions in Africa and Near East
In 2014 Donini took part in war for Donbass, in battle for the Donetsk Airport. According to his own words, he bought ammunition himself. Ukrainian equipment leaves much to be desired.
During the conflict he joined neo-Nazi oriented detachment “Azov”
Some time ago he returned to Italy and in December of 2021 he messaged that he is going to return to Ukraine to fight against Russia. After the start of Russian special war operation in Ukraine he has left Italy and deleted his accounts in social networks, so there is absence of definite information about his participation in current conflict.
All attempts to contact his relatives have been fruitless: they don’t want to comment this story, especially since it’s illegal in Italy
Donini (center, top row) with his "Azov" mates, making Nazi salutes. Donbass, 2015
Kids' corner #2
Illustrations from "Adventures of Alarmik and His Friends" (story by O. Vitvitskiy, 2014), first in a popular series of Ukrainian childrens' books about Alarmik, a young member of Ukrainian nationalist military unit (sporting the WW2-era uniform that was worn by people, who pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler and killed Jewish, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian civilians during World War 2). The book is actually a self-declared ABC-book of a Ukrainian nationalist
You have a point.They do not declare war,and officially fight for those fake republics,so....I should think about that earlier.
Just to be clear -- the whole reason countries do not play games with legal technicalities here is that when they start doing so, the rules of war go out the door and everyone starts executing prisoners of war.
The rules of war are fundamentally nothing more than a gentleman's agreement between sovereign states; they are in real terms only as binding as the sovereign states *chose to follow them*. When a nation choses *not to* do so, they either get stomped on by everyone else for "war crimes", or if they're too big and powerful to be stomped on like that, the rules just go out the window entirely.