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| Swedish officer killed in Donetsk region, media report |
| 2022-07-20 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] A Swedish lieutenant who previously served in the Swedish Air Force in Uppsala died in battle near Donetsk, SVT reported. The military man was 28 years old, he was wounded in the chest and died. "He came here (to Donbass ) a couple of months ago and was here to share his tactical knowledge," a source told SVT. According to the channel, several hundred Swedes went to Ukraine to participate in hostilities , including to join the so-called international brigade. It is noted that there is no official confirmation of this information. According to Swedish television sources, some of the subjects previously served in the Swedish Armed Forces and retired to go to Ukraine. Others, breaking the rules, came to fight as members of the Swedish Armed Forces. Officer of the People's Militia of the DPR with the call sign Grom spoke about foreign mercenaries. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, noted that foreign mercenaries are not combatants and the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison. According to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Americans participated in the shelling of the Russian military and should be held accountable for this, but their fate will be decided by the court. In Donetsk , on June 9, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death : two British citizens - Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to Ukraine's armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR. In addition, in mid-June, in the battles near Kharkov, the Russian military captured two former servicemen of the American army. They were 39-year-old Alexander Dryuke, who served in Iraq, and 27-year-old Andy Hyun. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Washington is in direct contact with the Russian authorities on this issue. In total, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 7,107 mercenaries from more than 60 states have arrived in Ukraine since the beginning of the special operation. At the same time, 2347 of them died, 2019 left. |
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