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2022-05-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Foreign mercenaries detained in the DPR could face the death penalty

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Posted by badanov 2022-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 There is no such thing as the Donetsk People's Republic.

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Thromons3612 2022-05-28 00:50|| 2022-05-28 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 So this applies to the Wagner Group, too?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-28 05:00|| 2022-05-28 05:00|| Front Page Top

#3 ..it appears the group in Syria got that penalty applied to it (when they decide to go against a still 'real' military).

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-28 08:42|| 2022-05-28 08:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny how *spit* mercenaries *spit* don't get the love and legal protections from "international law experts" that (quote) globetrotting 'freedom fighters' (un-quote). Odd, isn't it?

Posted by magpie 2022-05-28 22:03|| 2022-05-28 22:03|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ ... fighters' (un-quote) get.

Posted by magpie 2022-05-28 22:05|| 2022-05-28 22:05|| Front Page Top

#6 They're not getting much love from the Western press either these days.

Washington Post dispatch this afternoon about how American mercenaries got the shit beaten out of them. Pathetic, actually.

Ukraine mercenaries are coming home, reckoning with difficult fight

Americans and other foreign fighters who’ve taken up arms against Russia describe glaring disparities in what they expected and what they experienced

By Alex Horton, Razzan Nakhlawi and Souad Mekhennet
THE WASHINGTON POST
May 28, 2022 at 7:07 p.m. EDT

In interviews with The Washington Post, foreign fighters from the United States and elsewhere described glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced. They recalled going into battle underequipped and outgunned...

...the conflict has drawn Western military veterans who either have never deployed into combat previously or have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies — not this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology.

Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-28 22:48|| 2022-05-28 22:48|| Front Page Top

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