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[00:00:18] Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
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[00:00:28] Russia, Russia.
[00:01:00] Four settlements were liberated by Russian military in the special operation zone in the Kharkiv
[00:01:04] region, Reznikovo Kupina was taken under control.
[00:01:06] Progress is being made in the DPR, where the center's
[00:01:10] fighters liberated Novotroitske and
[00:01:13] Petrovskoe. Also, the clearing of the western blocks
[00:01:16] of Dobropolye and the territory of the eponymous mine continues. During the day,
[00:01:20] 137 buildings were liberated, including three industrial
[00:01:24] facilities. In Kyiv, emergency power
[00:01:27] outages are the result of our military's work on energy facilities in the
[00:01:31] Ukrainian capital and region. In addition, warehouses of industrial
[00:01:35] enterprises were hit, a strong fire broke out on the site, thick smoke
[00:01:39] can be seen for several kilometers. In the Odessa region,
[00:01:42] in addition to port infrastructure and ships, the Data Center
[00:01:45] TNet was attacked. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The AFU used
[00:01:48] it to process, transmit and store information. In the Kharkiv
[00:01:52] region, after an airstrike, an ammunition depot detonated for more than
[00:01:56] 3 hours. In addition, arrivals were recorded in Kirovograd,
[00:02:00] Chernigov and Nikolaev regions.
[00:02:04] The head of the Kyiv regime is not capable of thoughtful actions, said
[00:02:07] Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov. He added
[00:02:11] that Zelensky could already now demonstrate a propensity for peaceful
[00:02:15] negotiations, but instead he continues to take aggressive
[00:02:19] actions against Russia. Peskov stressed that such a policy
[00:02:22] is erroneous and that Ukraine has to pay dearly for it.
[00:02:25] Earlier, US President Donald Trump announced that
[00:02:29] an independent new leader was needed. Anna
[00:02:32] Voronina will continue the topic.
[00:02:39] Yesterday hysteria, today panic. In Kyiv, they clearly did not
[00:02:42] expect such a statement from Donald
[00:02:44] Trump.
[00:02:49] I think they should find a new leader who can make a
[00:02:53] deal. Because he could have resolved the conflict many times, but for some
[00:02:57] reason he didn't. We lost 30% of the country. Over
[00:03:00] a million people died in your country, and I think it's time for Ukraine
[00:03:03] to find a new president. And Donald Trump is not
[00:03:06] alone in his judgment. The same opinion was expressed by billionaire Elon Musk, whose
[00:03:10] Starlink satellites are used by the AFU, and General Michael
[00:03:13] Flynn, who responded to criticism of the diesel deal by a former
[00:03:17] colleague. You still don't understand, Mike, and you never
[00:03:21] will. Donald Trump is focused on
[00:03:24] ending a war that should never
[00:03:27] have started, while you, and the same.
[00:03:45] Trump's hypocrites, in Ukraine there have been no presidential elections since
[00:03:48] 2019, billions of US dollars sent
[00:03:52] there under the previous administration. The war must
[00:03:55] end, and Zelensky must listen to what the US
[00:03:58] President says. Proposal. Consequences of anti-Russian
[00:04:06] sanctions
[00:04:10] again call for a constructive dialogue with Russia for the sake of the
[00:04:13] citizens of their own countries.
[00:04:16] America defends national interests, and we in the European Union impose
[00:04:20] sanctions and embargoes. We moralize, pay huge
[00:04:24] money for diesel fuel and tremble with fear whether
[00:04:27] there will be enough. Soon, at EU gas stations, we will fill up with expensive
[00:04:30] American diesel of Russian origin, but not everyone
[00:04:34] shares this opinion, in pursuit of political ambitions and power in the
[00:04:37] European Union, they suddenly remembered the principles
[00:04:40] of democracy.
[00:04:43] It is certainly not for Donald Trump to dictate the electoral calendar
[00:04:46] of a sovereign state, which Ukraine is. In Estonia,
[00:04:50] they even proposed to increase assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible so that it could
[00:04:54] continue to strike Russian oil refineries in order to somehow
[00:04:58] spite Washington.
[00:05:03] The agreement between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump broke the chain
[00:05:06] of sanctions against Moscow, said former Serbian President
[00:05:10] Aleksandar Vučić, he addressed his supporters live
[00:05:14] through
[00:05:14] social networks.
[00:05:19] The Trump-Putin agreement clearly changes the situation in the
[00:05:22] world in many ways. Americans thus broke the chain of sanctions
[00:05:26] imposed against the Russian Federation. Trump shows
[00:05:29] himself to be a pragmatic, practical person who wants to solve
[00:05:33] his own problems and get cheap diesel fuel to
[00:05:37] lower the price of a gallon of diesel. For Russia,
[00:05:39] it is extremely important that this agreement takes place.
[00:06:26] The Houthis promise to continue attacks, how long can their
[00:06:29] resources last for new attacks on Saudi Arabia, how will the
[00:06:33] kingdom respond, Natalya Goncharova will tell.
[00:06:37] This is what Riyadh airport looks like after the attack by Yemeni
[00:06:40] Houthis.
[00:06:47] Saudi Arabia, with the exception of the holy places of Mecca and Medina,
[00:06:51] is now unsafe. Houthi armed forces again
[00:06:55] warn all airlines and
[00:06:57] travelers about the danger of using Saudi
[00:07:00] airports and airspace. The Houthis note that
[00:07:04] they plan to continue attacks on the most important objects
[00:07:07] of the kingdom, oil companies and
[00:07:10] airports. As can be seen on... the Ansarallah missile
[00:07:13] covered 900 km. Experts note
[00:07:17] that the Houthis will have enough resources for a long continuation
[00:07:20] of attacks. Everything depends on the intensity of the attacks
[00:07:23] of the movements, that is, the Houthis, that is, how intensely they will
[00:07:27] conduct them, because, as I understand it,
[00:07:30] the Houthis are capable of replenishing their ballistic missiles,
[00:07:34] drones, they have their own production where
[00:07:37] they assemble these types of weapons from parts that
[00:07:41] are supplied to them through various smuggling
[00:07:45] routes, and partially they can even produce them themselves,
[00:07:48] yes, so
[00:07:51] their capabilities are quite large, they can last
[00:07:54] for years, yes, that is, neither Americans nor Saudis
[00:07:58] could destroy these secret
[00:08:01] hidden, yes, so to speak, production bases
[00:08:04] of missiles and drones, where they assemble them, Riyadh promised
[00:08:08] to respond to the Ansar Allah forces, within the framework of the Mikan agreement between.
[00:09:12] under their banners gathered a real criminal international of
[00:09:15] mercenaries, they are called soldiers of fortune, citizens of dozens
[00:09:19] of countries in Europe, Asia, America shot, killed, looted, how recruitment happens,
[00:09:23] how foreign militants behave with civilians,
[00:09:26] testimony, opinions and confessions, watch in our
[00:09:30] documentary film Mercenaries of Disappointment, right after a short
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[00:13:49] Hey boys, where are
[00:13:51] we
[00:13:54] baby? They are soldiers of fortune, wild geese, dogs
[00:13:57] of war, as they are not called, in other words,
[00:14:00] mercenaries,
[00:14:08] Poles, French, Brazilians, who was not there,
[00:14:11] everyone was there, Poles, French
[00:14:14] were there,
[00:14:17] and blacks, we saw, were also found
[00:14:21] citizens of Great Britain, USA, Brazil.
[00:15:38] Heroes of Ukraine.
[00:16:00] Who are they, why do they travel thousands of kilometers for someone else's war, what
[00:16:04] crimes do they commit and what does such
[00:16:08] bloody tourism turn into? Our new film about foreign mercenaries,
[00:16:11] the most despised category of fighters, no one likes them,
[00:16:15] not even those on whose side they are.
[00:16:47] Since the beginning of the special military operation, more than 900 mercenaries fighting on the
[00:16:51] side of the AFU have been in the combat zone, my Georgian
[00:16:55] brother, we sincerely greet you.
[00:17:10] After the start of the special military operation, the main investigative
[00:17:13] department of the Investigative Committee of Russia opened
[00:17:17] a criminal case on the recruitment and participation of mercenaries in
[00:17:20] hostilities, a special investigative group was created for the investigation,
[00:17:24] it included the most experienced investigators of the central
[00:17:27] apparatus of the department, interagency interaction with operational
[00:17:31] and intelligence agencies was organized. Criminologists and
[00:17:34] experts from the department were involved in the investigative work,
[00:17:37] the problem of mercenarism and the formation
[00:17:41] of the Kyiv regime, it has existed for a very long time, it is
[00:17:44] a mistake to think that all this appeared only in twenty-two, the first
[00:17:48] time it manifested itself with such, they usually say a double flower, in
[00:17:52] this case an orange flower comes from the same orange
[00:17:55] revolution, when under the guise of protesters
[00:17:59] it was precisely recruited, well-prepared,
[00:18:02] then the events of the thirteenth and fourteenth
[00:18:06] year, of course... said that
[00:18:08] these were no longer isolated cases and
[00:18:12] not even dozens, and not
[00:18:15] hundreds. These people were trained on the territory
[00:18:18] of countries, primarily, such as
[00:18:21] Poland, and of course, the Baltic states, and they were trained
[00:18:25] there in special camps, trained for street
[00:18:28] fighting, they all were then surprised when they realized
[00:18:32] where they had ended up, the real war was not like what
[00:18:35] they had been taught. My God, that grenade
[00:18:39] that fell on me there would have turned me into shit,
[00:18:43] but thank God it only hit my
[00:18:46] arm and
[00:18:48] leg.
[00:18:54] they tried to come to us yesterday, but they
[00:18:57] didn't quite succeed, what
[00:19:00] prevented him from staying home, we are working, brothers, at best
[00:19:04] mercenaries return home in an urn with ashes,
[00:20:07] I probably wouldn't want to say that, there were
[00:20:09] Georgians, these chilling details are shared by
[00:20:13] Nikolai Rylsky, he is from Sudzha, has lived in Moscow
[00:20:17] for almost 40 years, when trouble came to his parents' home, he returned to save
[00:20:20] his family, there he learned how hospitable European guests
[00:20:23] can be, welcome to
[00:20:26] concept, another comrade said that when
[00:20:29] they left Sudzha with his wife in a car, they were stopped,
[00:20:33] thrown out of the car by Ukrainian soldiers, when the shooting started...
[00:20:38] They said, they say, through the forest
[00:20:42] there quickly, that is, through the green zone,
[00:20:45] yes, they let them run away, and warned, they say, if you don't
[00:20:48] leave here now, they say. The Poles are coming after us, they say, they won't
[00:20:52] let you go.
[00:20:56] We are heading to the Kursk region to hear the stories of civilians
[00:21:00] who suffered as a result of the attack by the
[00:21:04] militants on the border,
[00:21:06] civilians, witnesses of atrocities and
[00:21:09] brutality committed by Ukrainian militants, among
[00:21:12] them foreign mercenaries, it is known that among
[00:21:16] them were citizens of Germany, France, Poland
[00:21:19] and... Georgia, representatives
[00:21:21] of the USA, uh, Malta,
[00:21:25] Paraguay, Colombia,
[00:21:29] uh, well, and the same CIS countries,
[00:21:31] Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan.
[00:21:35] Узбекистана.
[00:21:38] Uh, yes, a fairly large geography, a fairly
[00:21:41] large, extensive, so to speak, a large number
[00:21:44] of participants are involved in this conflict. Investigator
[00:21:48] of the GSU SK Russia. Together with his colleagues, he has been collecting
[00:21:52] evidence of the crimes of Ukrainian militants and their
[00:21:55] foreign accomplices for several months. The number of people
[00:21:58] who took part in the Kursk region,
[00:22:01] about whom we have already collected
[00:22:04] evidence, sent these criminal cases to court, the number is
[00:22:07] 28. The region was liberated more than a year ago, but the work
[00:22:11] of investigators did not stop. The main task is to identify
[00:22:15] and punish those involved in the attack.
[00:22:17] We arrived at the temporary accommodation point
[00:23:03] to find witnesses, victims, incidentally, there are still several
[00:23:07] temporary accommodation points in Kursk, this one, for example, is located on the territory
[00:23:10] of a sports and recreation complex, here all the necessary
[00:23:13] conditions for living are provided, three meals a day and, of course,
[00:23:17] humanitarian aid. To relive it again and again,
[00:23:50] relatives, loved ones,
[00:23:53] because many, of course, lost everything, home, blood,
[00:23:59] and to talk about it
[00:24:02] on camera, to remember again, to relive this pain, to reopen
[00:24:06] wounds that have not yet healed completely,
[00:24:09] they don't want to, of course,
[00:24:12] so not everyone is ready to communicate
[00:24:15] on camera and share their.
[00:24:19] murders,
[00:24:25] violence committed against local
[00:24:29] residents who were absolutely,
[00:24:32] well, peaceful residents, not involved in the
[00:24:36] conflict, who were not
[00:24:39] military personnel, that is,
[00:24:41] those people whose interests were protected
[00:24:45] not only by Russian norms, but also by international...
[00:24:49] economy, and we had guys there, well,
[00:25:20] maybe two people, we didn't know, we saw it later
[00:25:24] when they climbed onto the roof of the school,
[00:25:27] broke it, installed a machine gun there, it turns out, well, we understood that later,
[00:25:31] and the machine gun, well, they installed a machine gun there, they swore,
[00:25:35] our guys started climbing on them, shouting, screaming, only
[00:25:38] machine gun fire, dr dr, well, they were just shot
[00:25:42] at that time, because they climbed to them, but I understood that
[00:25:45] well, these were not the Ukrainians themselves, no, the first mercenary
[00:25:49] brigade that went there, they are
[00:25:53] wild
[00:25:53] animals.
[00:27:04] Shocking footage 2022, Kyiv
[00:27:07] region, brutal murder of Russian prisoners of war, tied
[00:27:10] paratroopers had their throats cut, and then the whole company of sadists
[00:27:13] watched, those who were still clinging to life were finished off
[00:27:17] with shots to the head, you Russian soldiers, I'm telling you about
[00:27:20] the Georgian Legion, now we will not take Russian soldiers
[00:27:24] prisoner under any circumstances, just like Kadyrovites, not a single person
[00:27:27] will be taken prisoner, and this is the founder of the gang of
[00:27:30] thugs, Vulashi. He recruited fellow countrymen into the Georgian
[00:27:34] national legion of the AFU after Euromaidan. Everything was
[00:27:37] legal, the then authorities of Georgia officially allowed their
[00:27:41] citizens to fight on the side of Ukraine. For me this is not new, this
[00:27:45] is a purely idealistic war for us. There are my
[00:27:48] comrades who basically think the same, and for us this is our war, it is not
[00:27:52] a foreign war. Mamulashvili fought since childhood, at 14 years old
[00:27:56] the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, then the first Chechen war, his
[00:27:59] national legion he openly called the heir of another. also
[00:28:03] Georgian, which existed during World War II, the favorites
[00:28:06] of the Wehrmacht.
[00:28:16] The lust for violence is a family affair, in social networks Mamulashvili found
[00:28:19] a photograph from an old issue of Ogonyok magazine. It shows Kikias
[00:28:23] Mamulashvili nicknamed "Caucasian Robber". Caption
[00:28:27] "Great-great-grandfather". Thief and terrorist. In
[00:28:30] 1914 he was shot during...
[00:29:32] special methods, for example, it was
[00:29:35] Mossad officers who trained officers of the Dnipro Battalion,
[00:29:39] in illegal methods of interrogation, roughly speaking, torture. Over
[00:29:42] time, the country became a large training base for radicals,
[00:29:45] the number of camps with mercenaries was envied even by ISIS members. Again,
[00:29:49] they didn't look at me as one of their own, a person who
[00:29:53] needed to be protected, roughly
[00:29:55] speaking, where there was some
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[00:34:11] Torbeyevsky Central in Mordovia, here Ukrainian
[00:34:34] mercenary, Georgian citizen, Mamuka Gatsarelya, is serving his sentence
[00:34:37] for the crimes he committed, namely the execution of Russian servicemen.
[00:34:41] He was sentenced to life imprisonment, incidentally, he is the youngest among
[00:34:45] prisoners with such a sentence. He is
[00:34:48] 24 years old, he arrived in Ukraine in March
[00:34:51] 2022. Then at the interview in the international
[00:34:54] legion, he almost got rejected, allegedly too
[00:34:57] young, short, without combat experience, only contract service
[00:35:00] in Georgia. After which I decided to join the
[00:35:04] Georgian National Legion of Kwamu Kalashlashvili. I
[00:35:07] called him, he explained to me, just get there.
[00:35:11] a couple of hours later we moved
[00:35:18] from Lviv to Kyiv. Then one disappointment
[00:35:25] after another, but there was no turning back. I didn't like
[00:35:28] the situation inside the Georgian Legion, I decided to leave
[00:35:32] it. What situation? Firstly, then with equipment it was very
[00:35:35] bad, secondly,
[00:35:39] relations, many such people
[00:35:41] who, how can I say, went for
[00:35:45] no clear reason, that is, if excuse me, a person says, that is,
[00:35:49] I go for money, I go for an idea, I go for this, I go for that, that is, it's
[00:35:53] understandable, but someone says, I go for an idea, but I would like
[00:35:56] to earn some money, that's how Gatsarelia ended up under the wing of the
[00:36:00] Main Intelligence Directorate, from Kyiv to Dnipro, from there straight to
[00:36:04] Mariupol, a group of thirteen people, Mamuka is the only
[00:36:07] mercenary among them, the task is to escort a helicopter,
[00:36:10] they landed, he and four others, took positions.
[00:36:13] he already, that is,
[00:36:28] thought that he would cope, and he already wanted, well, like, suggested,
[00:36:31] let's just run away, desert
[00:36:35] suggested, so why didn't they support him?
[00:36:38] How can I tell you, not
[00:36:41] for bribes, not like a man, like not
[00:36:45] a man, artillery worked, then our infantry
[00:36:48] went into action, well, I was just in position,
[00:36:51] noticed that a reconnaissance group, four
[00:36:55] people are coming towards us, the first person... with a light
[00:36:58] machine gun RPK, then these three they
[00:37:01] with AK74 weapons,
[00:37:05] well, and what I said through the radio, they told me to
[00:37:08] open fire, I fired three
[00:37:11] short bursts from the automatic rifle, killed three,
[00:37:15] one retreated, well, and how do you feel after you
[00:37:19] shot him? Honestly, I felt nothing, I myself, roughly speaking, did not
[00:37:22] expect that I would do this so
[00:37:25] coldly. Coldly, cynically, without
[00:37:28] remorse, he felt sorry for himself, I am a simple soldier,
[00:37:32] soldiers also disappear there, well, that is, they are taken prisoner, then I am worth
[00:37:36] nothing, for some reason they don't need me and in no plans, that
[00:37:39] is, they don't want to help me, roughly speaking, well, my
[00:37:42] parents, I hoped that Zelensky would not
[00:37:45] be deceived, he surrendered to captivity at Azovstal after sitting
[00:37:49] in a bunker with a group of other militants, this moment really
[00:37:52] infuriated me when I found out that the Azovstal
[00:37:56] plant was located...
[00:38:39] Mamuka did not receive a single kopeck, nor did his
[00:38:42] parents receive any money, that is, they should to get something else for you, well,
[00:38:46] yes, I'm a contract soldier,
[00:38:49] that is, under the same conditions as any
[00:38:52] other Ukrainian soldier, but your parents don't receive
[00:38:56] any payments from Ukraine... No, I regret letting
[00:39:00] my mother down, my
[00:39:02] parents,
[00:39:04] my younger brother, who begged me
[00:39:08] not to go. I asked them to write
[00:39:12] from the embassy, to ask for something, so that they
[00:39:15] would help you, at least with something. The answer was,
[00:39:18] he is not a citizen of Ukraine,
[00:39:21] that's it. Speaking of embassies, it was diplomats who recruited
[00:39:25] Gatsarelia, and so he ended up in Ukraine. The first thing
[00:39:28] I did was visit the embassy
[00:39:32] of Ukraine, Georgia in Tbilisi, or wherever in Tbilisi,
[00:39:36] yes, I talked to this consul, he
[00:39:39] explained to me how to proceed, gave me a
[00:39:41] phone number, a curator, gave me
[00:39:44] a letter, like permission,
[00:39:48] so that they wouldn't stop me
[00:39:50] at the border,
[00:39:54] one of the ways for foreign mercenaries to end up.
[00:40:37] I want to say that contrary to all norms of international law, contrary to the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular Relations, recruitment was carried out, including through the websites of embassies,
[00:40:40] consulates general, and permanent missions of Ukraine
[00:40:44] abroad. Russia reacted to this, sent
[00:40:47] corresponding notes of protest and worked with the authorities of the host
[00:40:50] countries to ensure that this was minimized
[00:40:54] and brought to naught. There are exceptions. Austria is one
[00:40:58] of them. After the scandal in Vienna, the Ukrainian embassy deleted all
[00:41:02] appeals to citizens from social networks. The same cannot be said about Finland? Instructions for those who
[00:41:06] want to fight in Ukraine are published on the website
[00:41:08] of the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main thing that the country's
[00:41:12] authorities recommend is to settle all affairs in case the return from the battlefield
[00:41:15] is delayed, or if the mercenary does not return at all. At the same time,
[00:41:19] Finnish officials clarify that mercenary activity in the Ukrainian
[00:41:23] army is not considered a crime, but helping wounded
[00:41:26] compatriots is not.
[00:41:36] websites of the embassies of Ukraine in Belgium, Greece, Latvia and Lithuania.
[00:41:40] such stars, who were mercenaries operating on our
[00:41:43] territory, that is, we
[00:41:46] didn't have such a thing, Afghan war veteran Yuri Sukhorukov says
[00:41:50] directly: today's militants are more terrible than mujahideen, Ukrainian
[00:41:54] invaders razed his native village to the ground, and with them, on
[00:41:57] the border, brigades of mercenaries advanced. The first assault group,
[00:42:01] which entered from Suzhan, they were all mercenaries, mostly mercenaries
[00:42:04] go, they indiscriminately, that is, they shell, they know there are
[00:42:08] civilians sitting there, the village...
[00:42:20] indiscriminately, whether it was a woman or not, they shot everyone in a row, the neighboring village of Kurilovka,
[00:42:23] Kolya Kuznetsov, I know you well, we were friends with him, he
[00:42:26] is a resident of Kurilovka, already under occupation, he went with
[00:42:29] a bucket of water to get some, he ran into
[00:42:33] mercenaries,
[00:42:36] he was with a bucket, he just came to the column to get some water, and that's it...
[00:42:40] a shot in the eye,
[00:42:43] how can this be explained, this is simply
[00:42:47] inhuman. The investigation has obtained data on the participation in combat
[00:42:50] operations on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as mercenaries,
[00:42:54] more than 16 thousand foreigners, these are citizens
[00:42:58] of seventy states, including the USA, Canada,
[00:43:02] Great Britain, France, other countries of Western Europe,
[00:43:06] Georgia, Poland and the Baltics, countries of Latin
[00:43:09] America. Many of them are ardent Russophobes, this is what
[00:43:12] they are based on, for example, the Latvian mercenary Krist Ansans, he
[00:43:16] speaks without hesitation about his hatred for Russians, he tells
[00:43:18] journalists.
[00:43:21] I drive around Latvia, I see cars with Russian license plates, everything inside
[00:43:25] me is just boiling. This confession sounds more like the words of a person with
[00:43:28] clear mental deviations, however, among
[00:43:31] mercenaries there are many who openly profess Satanism, the cult
[00:43:35] of violence and
[00:43:35] death.
[00:44:10] we really need your help, because we don't have enough money to
[00:44:14] collect for four more pickups. The story of this
[00:44:17] Baltic ended differently: in 2022
[00:44:20] fifty-six-year-old Uldis Volmārs joined the international
[00:44:24] legion, wounded his leg in battle, they couldn't help him in Ukraine, he had
[00:44:28] to go home, but no miracle happened there either, after the operation
[00:44:31] gangrene began, his leg was amputated, then complications
[00:44:35] spread to the second, and it was also amputated. In his
[00:44:38] troubles, Volmers blames...
[00:46:33] he has his own Ukrainian soldiers, and here he has an attached unit of some foreigners, who, by the way, receive salaries several times higher than his soldiers, who will he cherish more, he will certainly
[00:46:37] cherish his own more, and these foreign...
[00:46:42] special story: mercenaries from Latin America, descendants of
[00:46:46] Bolívar, adventurers whom hardly anyone can
[00:46:50] be proud of. The second type, which
[00:46:53] is more widespread, are immigrants
[00:46:56] from countries with lower incomes,
[00:46:59] such as Colombia, Venezuela. These citizens
[00:47:03] come directly with the goal of earning
[00:47:06] easy money, and these people are often
[00:47:10] typical losers who failed
[00:47:13] to build a career,
[00:47:16] build a business. Let's get acquainted, instead of favelas, he now
[00:47:20] lives in a much more known place. Vladimir Central was built
[00:47:24] in the distant year 1783 by
[00:47:27] order of Empress Catherine II. Largely thanks to
[00:47:30] Mikhail Krug's song of the same name, this prison became one
[00:47:33] of the most famous in Russia. Even those who had never
[00:47:37] been interested in the criminal life
[00:47:39] of the country knew about it.
[00:47:43] And this is exactly the case when there is a lot of evil. Especially
[00:47:46] dangerous criminals are kept here. And they serve their sentences without a heavy burden on
[00:47:50] their hearts.
[00:47:55] At different times, one of the most famous performers of Russian folk songs, Lidiya Ruslanova,
[00:47:59] Joseph Stalin's son Vasily,
[00:48:03] hundreds of thieves in
[00:48:03] law,
[00:48:08] saw the Vladimirka, a pleiad of war criminals, generals
[00:48:12] of the Wehrmacht, Abwehr intelligence officers, Hitler's
[00:48:15] personal guard. Today, one of the cells has a place for a war criminal
[00:48:19] of our days.
[00:50:22] to leave. Borges was offered to move from Uzhgorod to
[00:50:26] Sumy region, allegedly for better conditions. Pablo
[00:50:29] agreed, signed a contract there and began serving in the 47th
[00:50:32] brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian military assured that minimal
[00:50:36] first aid knowledge was sufficient. After signing
[00:50:39] the contract, the mercenaries were sent to a training
[00:50:42] center. The training lasted only 2 days, we
[00:50:45] were not really taught anything. No
[00:50:49] training was conducted. When the front needs it.
[00:50:53] the number of days spent on
[00:50:57] training this mercenary decreases proportionally, that
[00:51:00] is, if there is a general basic training course,
[00:51:04] which takes an average of 2 weeks, the most averaged minimum, which
[00:51:08] is currently applied in Ukraine to mercenaries, is 2
[00:51:11] weeks. When the front's need for
[00:51:15] human resources is very high,
[00:51:19] then this period is reduced to a week.
[00:51:22] what can a person be taught in a week
[00:51:26] who has no combat experience? In January 25, an order was received to evacuate
[00:51:30] the wounded from the combat zone. Pablo, with other mercenaries from Chile and
[00:51:34] Colombia, under the supervision of Ukrainian militants, loaded into a Bradley
[00:51:37] BMP and went towards Kursk
[00:51:39] region.
[00:51:42] They took our phones, they didn't show us a map and didn't tell us that we were going to the territory
[00:51:45] of the Russian Federation. They told me I needed to get the wounded out. Almost
[00:51:49] immediately the group came under fire, several were wounded. Pablo himself
[00:51:53] suffered a concussion, the mercenaries were immediately abandoned, without communication and
[00:51:56] transport, the Colombian wandered through the forest for several
[00:51:59] days.
[00:52:01] While I was wandering through the forest, I stumbled upon a group of soldiers, if. no
[00:52:24] equipment, he had to be saved from starvation
[00:52:27] himself,
[00:52:29] they treated me well, fed me, offered me coffee, even took me to the bathhouse,
[00:52:32] it would be a sin if I... said that the Russians treated me badly
[00:52:36] in captivity. In
[00:52:39] Colombia, Pablo has two children, a wife, and parents. He didn't
[00:52:42] tell them where he was going, saying he was going to earn money. They still don't
[00:52:46] know if he's alive or not. The mercenary was given 28 years in prison,
[00:52:49] he is now 34, he will be released as an old man, if
[00:52:53] he lives that long. I regret leaving Colombia,
[00:52:57] not listening to my son, going to Ukraine. I
[00:53:01] miss my family every day. I try to remember the faces of my
[00:53:04] children every day, so I don't forget them
[00:53:07] completely. What happened to Borges is far from the worst that happens to
[00:53:10] mercenaries, this is
[00:53:12] already better.
[00:53:21] much better than
[00:53:22] this.
[00:53:29] death is the most common outcome, among the killed
[00:53:32] mercenaries are the majority.
[00:54:05] compatriots from traveling to Ukraine. This spring, the previous
[00:54:08] president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, signed a law on accession to
[00:54:12] the convention on combating mercenary activities.
[00:54:16] 7.0 Colombians are fighting in a foreign war and senselessly dying in
[00:54:19] Ukraine. We do not want to export death. Mercenarism
[00:54:23] is forbidden by law. However, there are also many opponents
[00:54:27] of the law. Ukrainian authorities are unhappy, Latin American
[00:54:31] recruiters, for them this is a large-scale business, well
[00:54:34] organized. The fact is that since about
[00:54:37] 2024, from the moment when unmanned aviation began
[00:54:41] to play a colossal role, Latin American
[00:54:44] mercenaries go to Ukraine not
[00:54:46] on their own, but many go there by
[00:54:50] - order, roughly speaking, drug cartels, cartels, yes,
[00:54:54] these are Colombian, and Mexican cartels, these are Peruvian,
[00:54:57] Ecuadorian drug structures that send
[00:55:01] their citizens to Ukraine with the task of obtaining.
[00:55:05] combat experience in modern warfare, including combat experience
[00:55:08] in using drones. And now Mexican cartels
[00:55:12] are sticking Ukrainian flags on their cars. This is a distinctive
[00:55:15] sign, a signal to everyone. The fighters of the group fought in the ranks
[00:55:19] of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, gained combat experience and are ready to kill. From that,
[00:55:22] recruiting websites for foreigners are full of bright videos and
[00:55:26] photos with happy faces of mercenaries. Ordinary
[00:55:29] marketing, such are the realities. Beautiful
[00:55:32] pictures are placed, and guys.
[00:55:35] uh, so, in tactical uniform, in
[00:55:39] beautifully equipped, with beautiful body armor
[00:55:42] with huge rifles,
[00:55:46] which creates in a simple
[00:55:48] inhabitant a desire to try their luck
[00:55:52] in this conflict, which is what we see when
[00:55:55] a large number of people
[00:55:59] who had never before participated, had no
[00:56:02] education, no
[00:56:05] skills or abilities acquired
[00:56:09] during conscription in their own countries, are attracted to this topic. All this against
[00:56:12] the background of blatant chaos and talk of corruption among the mercenaries
[00:56:16] themselves. In the same Georgian region, scandals regularly erupt
[00:56:20] around commanders appropriating donations and laundering money
[00:56:23] from subscribers. A separate topic is payments to the families of the deceased. If
[00:56:27] the Kyiv regime does not fulfill its promises even
[00:56:31] to its own citizens, despite everything. What do
[00:56:34] you think? Will they stand on ceremony with those
[00:56:37] who were transferred through Poland from the African
[00:56:40] continent, from Asia, Latin America? The answer is obvious, of course
[00:56:44] not, there are so many loopholes, the simplest
[00:56:47] is when a deceased mercenary is not
[00:56:51] declared deceased, he continues to receive
[00:56:54] payments, and this money is simply appropriated by the commanders, well, roughly
[00:56:58] speaking, someone signs for him on the payroll, that's all, but
[00:57:01] most often this is done.
[00:57:04] The leader of the group of mercenaries, who
[00:57:08] forges signatures in Spanish and gets his kickback for
[00:57:12] it. So it turns out that behind the beautiful slogans about freedom,
[00:57:15] struggle, brotherhood, is a common
[00:57:18] trade in human lives, especially foreign ones, as we
[00:57:21] found out, it's very profitable, the main question is who and how much
[00:57:24] earns from this war, it seems that this best
[00:57:28] explains what is happening on the other side of the front.