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00:01:30area, the brutal murder of Russian prisoners of war. The paratroopers had their throats
00:01:33cut, and then the whole company of sadists
00:01:37watched. Those who were still clinging to life were finished
00:01:40off with shots to the head. We Russian soldiers, I'm telling you now for the
00:01:43Georgian Legion, we will never
00:01:47take Russian soldiers prisoner, just like Kadyrovites, not a single person
00:01:51will be taken prisoner. This is the founder of the gang of thugs,
00:01:54Mamuka Mamulashvili. He recruited his countrymen into the Georgian National Legion
00:01:58in the SSU after Euromaidan. Everything was legal. The then-authorities of
00:02:02Georgia officially allowed their citizens to fight on the side of
00:02:05Ukraine. For me, this is not new, this is a purely
00:02:08idealistic war for us. There are my
00:02:11comrades who, in principle, think the same way, and for us, this is our war, not
00:02:15a foreign war. Mamulashvili fought since childhood. At 14,
00:02:19the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, then the first Chechen war. He openly called
00:02:22his national legion the heir of another, also
00:02:26Georgian, which existed during the Second World War. Favorites.
00:02:39The craving for violence is a family matter. On social media, Mamulashvili found
00:02:43a photo from an old issue of the magazine Ogonyok, depicting Kikiai
00:02:46Mamulashvili, nicknamed "Caucasian Bandit".
00:02:49The caption reads "Great-great-grandson". Kikiai was a thief and terrorist. In
00:02:531914, he was shot dead during apprehension.
00:02:56A part of foreign mercenaries who
00:02:59professed openly Russophobic views, it's no secret
00:03:03that they were not even going for big money, so to speak.
00:03:06It was those who hated Russia and Russians,
00:03:10and who went there just to shoot at Russians. It was
00:03:13foreign instructors who, since the beginning of the Donbass conflict, prepared
00:03:17Ukraine for war. On the side of the war are also regular
00:03:19NATO, so-called specialists, well,
00:03:23just thugs, military advisors, instructors, technical
00:03:27specialists who provide non-consultative assistance. Mossad
00:03:41and Shin Bet officers trained the Dnepr battalion. This is
00:03:44100% confirmed information. Moreover, they were involved in
00:03:47both combined-arms training, that is, firearms,
00:03:51tactical, tactical medicine, roughly speaking, military
00:03:54training, and special methods, for example,
00:03:57Mossad officers trained
00:04:00Dnepr battalion officers in illegal
00:04:03interrogation methods, roughly speaking, torture. Over time, the country became a large
00:04:07training base for radicals. Even ISIS members envied the number
00:04:10of camps with mercenaries. They didn't see me as
00:04:14one of their own, someone
00:04:17to protect, roughly speaking. If
00:04:20there was a very bad situation, "who should we send?"
00:04:24"Let's send me, that is, mothers there."
00:04:27They even jokingly called us "combat
00:04:31piglets," meaning to the slaughter. It's a pity they realize
00:04:34these combat piglets too late.
00:06:48Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
00:06:51Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
00:06:55Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
00:06:59Russia, 24.
00:07:27Torbeyevsky Central in Mordovia, where Ukrainian mercenary, a citizen
00:07:31of Georgia, Mamuka Gatsareli, is serving his sentence for the crimes he
00:07:34committed, namely the execution of Russian servicemen. He was sentenced
00:07:37to life imprisonment. By the way, he is the youngest among the
00:07:41prisoners with such a sentence. He is
00:07:4524 years old. He came to Ukraine in March
00:07:472022. At that time, at the interview in the International
00:07:51Legion, he almost got rejected. Allegedly too young,
00:07:54short, without combat experience, only contract service in
00:07:57Georgia. After that, I decided to join the
00:08:01Georgian National Legion under Mamuka Shveli. I
00:08:04called him, he explained to me,
00:08:07get to Lviv, and I'll pick you up there. I
00:08:11got ready, they poured me there, well, I, roughly speaking,
00:08:15made it, because a couple of hours later we moved
00:08:18from Lviv to Kyiv, then one disappointment after
00:08:22another, but there was no turning back. I didn't like
00:08:26the situation inside the Georgian Legion, so I decided to leave
00:08:29it. What kind of situation? First, at that time, there were very bad
00:08:32conditions with equipment, second,
00:08:35the relationships. Many people, whom,
00:08:39how can I say, it's unclear what they went for. That is, if,
00:08:42excuse me, a person says, "I'm going for money, I'm going for an idea, I'm
00:08:46going for this, I'm going for that," that's understandable. But someone says, "I'm
00:08:50going for an idea, but I wouldn't mind earning some money."
00:08:54That's how Gatsarelia came under the wing of the Main Intelligence Directorate, from Kyiv to
00:08:57Dnepr, and from there straight to Mariupol. A group of thirteen
00:09:01people, Mamuka was the only mercenary among them. The task was
00:09:04to escort a helicopter. They landed, he and
00:09:07four others took positions in residential areas. But we waited
00:09:10out the night, that is, it wasn't an offensive. Just artillery shelling,
00:09:14from tanks, in short,
00:09:17well, the Grads, the youngest in the group, he was 19,
00:09:21he already, that is, thought he could handle it, and he already
00:09:25wanted, well, he kind of suggested, let's go, in short, to my father.
00:09:28He suggested deserting. Yes, so,
00:09:31why didn't they support him? Mmm, how can
00:09:35I put it? You can't do that, it's not manly, quiet,
00:09:38not manly. The artillery did its job, then our
00:09:42infantry went in. Well, I was standing right in position, noticed
00:09:46that a group was developing, four people were coming
00:09:48towards us. The first person with a heavy
00:09:52machine gun, PK RPK, and then these three, they had
00:09:56AK-74 weapons. Well, what did I do? I reported
00:10:00it on the radio.
00:10:02They told me to open fire. I fired three
00:10:05short bursts from my automatic rifle, killed three of them,
00:10:09one retreated. Well, and how did it feel after? You shot
00:10:13them. Honestly, I felt nothing. I, roughly speaking, didn't
00:10:16expect to do
00:10:19it so coldly. Coldly, cynically, without
00:10:22remorse. He felt sorry for himself. I'm a simple soldier,
00:10:26soldiers also disappear there, well, that is, they are taken prisoner. It costs me nothing.
00:10:30For some reason, they don't need me, and they don't want
00:10:33to help me in any way, roughly speaking, or my
00:10:36parents. I hoped that Zelensky would not
00:10:39deceive me. He surrendered at Azovstal after sitting
00:10:43in a bunker with a group of other militants. This moment really
00:10:46pissed me off, when I found out that there were almost
00:10:50300 people at Azovstal plant. Why did it
00:10:53piss me off? Because there weren't enough
00:10:57people at the positions, we had no food, nothing.
00:11:00And those who were smart,
00:11:03experienced guys, took it upon themselves to stock up
00:11:07on food, made themselves comfortable there. They were
00:11:10sitting, drinking, well, as without drugs for
00:11:13some. Drugs were also there, of course. I don't know much,
00:11:17but I heard something about salt there. I didn't
00:11:19encounter it myself, but someone went to the bunker
00:11:23there, "damn, I'm not gonna sniff you..." He's salting again, drunks
00:11:27shooting at each other. He was promised a salary of 20,000
00:11:30hryvnias, and if he fought on the front line, a whole 100. Mamuka received
00:11:34not a penny. His parents didn't receive money either. So they
00:11:38should get something for you? Well, yes, I'm
00:11:40a contract soldier, that is, under the same
00:11:44conditions as any other AFU soldier.
00:11:48But your parents don't receive any payments from Ukraine?
00:11:51No, I regret that en masse
00:11:55I let down my parents,
00:11:58my younger brother, who begged me not
00:12:02to go. I asked, that is, write
00:12:05from the embassy, go there or something, that is, for them
00:12:08to help you, at least with something. The answer,
00:12:12"He is not a citizen of Ukraine."
00:12:15That's all. Speaking of embassies, it was diplomats
00:12:18who recruited and enlisted Gatsarelia, that's how he ended up in
00:12:21Ukraine. The first thing I did was visit the ambassador.
00:12:26Of Ukraine in Georgia, in Tbilisi or wherever, in Tbilisi,
00:12:29yes, I talked to the consul there, he explained to me
00:12:33what to do, gave me, well, the phone number
00:12:36of the curator, gave me a letter, like
00:12:39permission,
00:12:42so that they wouldn't stop me at the border.
00:12:44One of the ways for foreign
00:12:48mercenaries to join the AFU is to contact the Ukrainian
00:12:51embassy or consulate. Specially trained staff, in other
00:12:55words, recruiters, will gladly share any information
00:12:59and details. Exceptions among them, of course, exist, but there are
00:13:02not many of them. One of them, of course, is in Moscow. The Ukrainian embassy in
00:13:06Leontievsky Lane has not been working for several years.
00:13:10The recruitment of such soldiers of fortune
00:13:13by the Kyiv regime abroad has indeed become
00:13:17a part of Ukrainian political and military strategy.
00:13:21I want to say that, contrary to all norms, including through the websites of embassies,
00:13:33consulates general, and permanent missions of Ukraine
00:13:36abroad. Russia reacted to this by sending
00:13:39appropriate notes of protest and working with the authorities
00:13:43of the host country to minimize
00:13:46and reduce it to nothing. There are
00:13:50exceptions, Austria is one of them. After the scandal in Vienna, the Ukrainian
00:13:54embassy removed all appeals to citizens from social media. What can't be said about
00:13:57Finland? Instructions for those who want to fight in Ukraine
00:14:01are published on the website of the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
00:14:04The main thing that the country's authorities recommend is to settle all affairs in case
00:14:08the return from the battlefield is delayed, or if the mercenary does
00:14:11not return at all. At the same time, Finnish officials clarify
00:14:15that mercenary activity in the Ukrainian army is not considered a crime, but
00:14:18Finland will not help wounded compatriots
00:14:21with either evacuation or treatment. The tab for those wishing to join
00:14:25the International Legion is published on the front pages of the Ukrainian embassy websites
00:14:29in Belgium, Greece, Latvia and
00:14:31Lithuania.
00:14:33Such atrocities that mercenaries committed on our
00:14:37territory, that is, we didn't
00:14:40have such a thing. Afghan war veteran Yuri Sukharukov
00:14:43says directly: current militants are more terrible than mujahideen.
00:14:47Ukrainian invaders razed his native village to the ground. Along with
00:14:51them, brigades of mercenaries advanced on the border. The first assault
00:14:54group that entered Suzha was mostly mercenaries.
00:14:58Mercenaries go in indiscriminately, that is, they throw, they know civilians are sitting there,
00:15:02the village is peaceful in the village, they throw grenades
00:15:05into all the cellars. Mostly all civilians died,
00:15:08there was no discrimination, woman or not woman, they shot everyone
00:15:12indiscriminately. In the neighboring village of Kurilovka, Kolya
00:15:15Kuznetsov, I know him well, we were friends, he was a resident
00:15:19of Kurilovka, already under occupation. He went with a bucket to fetch
00:15:22water. He ran
00:15:25into mercenaries,
00:15:27he had a bucket, he just came to
00:15:29the well to get some water, well, they shot
00:15:33him in the eye. This is... The investigation has
00:15:42received data on the participation in hostilities on the side
00:15:45of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as mercenaries of more than
00:15:4816 thousand foreigners. These are citizens
00:15:52of seventy states, including the USA, Canada,
00:15:55Great Britain, France, and other Western European countries,
00:15:59Georgia, Poland, and the Baltics, Latin
00:16:02American countries. Many of them are ardent Russophobes,
00:16:06and that's what they rely on.
00:16:44Another Baltic nationalist, Valdast Bartkevichius, in the Kursk
00:16:48region, desecrated the mass grave of Soviet soldiers in Kazachya Loknya,
00:16:51destroyed the five-pointed star on the memorial stele, damaged the monument
00:16:55at the burial site, all to attract subscribers and money. On
00:16:58social media, he announced fundraisers for equipment, recorded tearful
00:17:02videos, and asked for donations. And we really need your help, because
00:17:06we don't have enough money to raise for four more
00:17:09pickups. The story of this Baltic ended differently: in
00:17:132022, 56-year-old Uldis
00:17:16Volmars joined the International Legion. He was wounded in the leg in battle,
00:17:20and they couldn't help him in Ukraine. He had to go home, but no miracle
00:17:24happened there either. After the operation, gangrene started, his leg
00:17:27was amputated, then complications spread to the second one,
00:17:30and it was also amputated. In his troubles, Volmars blames
00:17:33Ukrainian commanders, says that in that battle, they were betrayed.
00:17:37We were 300 meters from the Russians, we went to defend
00:17:41the water station, but I think someone betrayed us. I
00:17:44suspect this because they started bombing us. They bombed for 5
00:17:47hours, we couldn't get in or
00:17:49out.
00:17:52The loss of his legs and the betrayal of his commanders did not stop
00:17:55Volmars. In 2025, he returned to Ukraine. In
00:17:59Mykolaiv Oblast, he learned to assemble drones and
00:18:02control them. He went to the front line. In early June, he
00:18:05was eliminated by Russian fighters.
00:19:07on the phone, if at the beginning of 2022, there were still relations,
00:19:11like "these are our brothers, who came to us for peace
00:19:14with us and so on," then later, just put yourself in the shoes of some
00:19:18Ukrainian unit commander, he has his own Ukrainian soldiers
00:19:22and suddenly he has a attached unit of some
00:19:25foreigners, who, by the way, receive a salary several times higher
00:19:28than his soldiers, who will he protect more? He will, of course, protect
00:19:32his own more, and these foreigners, well, God be with them, who will
00:19:35worry about them? A special story: mercenaries from Latin America,
00:19:39heirs of Bolivar, adventurers whom hardly
00:19:43anyone can be proud of. The second type, which
00:19:46is more common, are people from countries
00:19:49with lower incomes,
00:19:52such as Colombia, Venezuela. These citizens
00:19:55come directly for the purpose of obtaining
00:19:58easy money, and these people are often
00:20:02typical losers who have no...
00:20:06served time. One of the most famous
00:20:50performers of Russian folk songs, Lidia Ruslanova, son of Iosif
00:20:53Stalin, Vasily, hundreds of thieves in law.
00:20:57Vladimir Kaplev was told about
00:21:02war criminals, Wehrmacht generals, Abwehr
00:21:06intelligence officers, Hitler's personal guard. Today, one of the cells
00:21:09has a place for a war criminal of our
00:21:12days. Lying
00:21:15there, watching, as if alive.
00:21:18He didn't explain, I only
00:21:50finished school, didn't study anywhere else, was involved in agriculture,
00:21:53worked as a security guard, for some time was an ambulance driver
00:21:57and participated in providing first aid several times. I found out about
00:22:01the SVO on TV, went to study social networks, saw an ad,
00:22:04paramedics are needed
00:22:07in the SOF.
00:22:10I saw information on TikTok on how to get to Ukraine, bought
00:22:14a ticket to Poland and from there by bus came to Lviv. Such
00:22:17a fertile ground for searching, recruiting,
00:22:21enlistment, and essentially deceiving
00:22:24foreigners to draw them into the mess. Why deceiving? Because
00:22:28they are not told where they will be sent. They are simply, so to speak,
00:22:31gathered like with a vacuum cleaner,
00:22:35including through social networks and messengers. What are they not
00:22:39promised? What tempting offers
00:22:42are not made? Pablo was promised 20,000 hryvnias a
00:22:46month, and on the line of combat contact, 50. But
00:22:49as in the case of the Georgian mercenary, something
00:22:53went wrong when signing the contract.
00:22:56There were about 40 of us, and we sat for 10 days. Every
00:22:59day they promised that we would sign the contract soon, but nothing happened.
00:23:03Among us were those who had been waiting for 2 months. We had bad conditions,
00:23:06they might not feed us. Those who had their own money bought
00:23:10food themselves. Some, who got tired of waiting, returned
00:23:13home. I had no money, I couldn't go anywhere.
00:23:17From Uzhgorod, Boris was offered to move to Sumy
00:23:21Oblast, supposedly for better conditions. Pablo agreed, signed
00:23:24a contract there and began serving in the 47th Brigade of the AFU. Ukrainian
00:23:28military assured that minimal knowledge of first aid
00:23:31is sufficient. After signing the contract, the mercenaries were sent to
00:23:34a training center.
00:23:37Training lasted only 2 days. We were given helmets, armor, weapons, but
00:23:41were not really taught anything. No training was conducted.
00:23:44When the front needs it,
00:23:48the number of days spent on training this
00:23:52mercenary decreases dramatically. That is, if
00:23:55there is a general course for a young soldier, which usually takes
00:23:582 weeks, the most averaged minimum that is currently applied
00:24:02in Ukraine to mercenaries is 2 weeks.
00:24:06When the front's need for
00:24:09human resources is very
00:24:12high, then this period is reduced to
00:24:15a week. What can you teach a person in
00:24:18a week, who has no combat experience? In January 2025,
00:24:22an order was received to evacuate the wounded from the combat zone.
00:24:25Pablo, with other mercenaries from Chile and Colombia, under the supervision of Ukrainian
00:24:29militants, loaded into a BMP Bradley and drove towards the Kursk
00:24:33region.
00:24:36They took our phones, they didn't show us a map and didn't tell us we were going to the territory
00:24:39of the Russian Federation. They told me to pull out the wounded. Almost
00:24:43immediately, the group came under fire, several were wounded, Pablo himself
00:24:46was concussed. The mercenaries were immediately abandoned. moment
00:27:33when unmanned aviation began to play a colossal
00:27:36role, Latin American mercenaries go to Ukraine
00:27:39not on their own, but many go there
00:27:43by order, figuratively speaking,
00:27:45of drug cartels, yes, these are Colombian, these are
00:27:49Mexican cartels, these are Peruvian, Ecuadorian drug
00:27:53structures that send their citizens to
00:27:56Ukraine with the task of gaining combat experience in modern
00:28:00warfare, including combat experience. The use
00:28:03of drones. And now Mexican cartels are sticking
00:28:06Ukrainian flags on their cars. This is a distinctive sign, a signal
00:28:10to everyone. The group's fighters fought in the ranks of the AFU, gained combat
00:28:14experience, and are ready to kill. That's why recruitment websites for
00:28:17foreigners are filled with bright videos and photos with
00:28:21happy faces of mercenaries. Regular marketing, these
00:28:24are the realities. Beautiful pictures are placed, and
00:28:27guys, uh, well, in tactical
00:28:31uniform, in beautifully equipped, with
00:28:34beautiful body armor with huge
00:28:38rifles, which creates in
00:28:41the average person a desire to try their luck,
00:28:45to try their fortune in this conflict, which we
00:28:48see when this topic attracts
00:28:52a large number of people who have generally not previously participated, who have
00:28:56no education, no skills
00:28:59or abilities acquired during
00:29:02compulsory service in their own states. All this
00:29:06against the backdrop of blatant chaos and talk of corruption among the mercenaries themselves.
00:29:10In the same Georgian Legion, scandals regularly erupt
00:29:13around commanders appropriating donations and laundering subscribers'
00:29:17money. A separate topic is payments to the families of the fallen.
00:29:20If the Kyiv regime, even in relation to its own citizens, does not
00:29:24keep its promises, despite everything, do you
00:29:28think they will be polite to those
00:29:31whom...
00:30:02forges signatures in Spanish and gets his kickback for it. That's
00:30:06what it turns out to be: behind pretty slogans about freedom, struggle,
00:30:09and brotherhood, there's just ordinary accounting. Trading human
00:30:12lives, especially other people's, as we found out, is very
00:30:15profitable. The main question is who earns how much from this
00:30:19war. It seems that this best explains
00:30:22what is happening on the other side
00:30:24of the front.