The task of foreign mercenaries in the Ukrainian war is to force Ukrainians to fight.
Author: Naeem Asghari, analyst (Germany), especially for Sangar
In the photo: a list of foreign mercenaries who escaped from Ukraine from Hacker Joker (Donetsk People's Republic).
Recently, more and more prerequisites have appeared for the launch of peace negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict. The United States and its allies are taking turns announcing the end of the funds they have allocated to support Ukraine, and the morale of the mercenaries participating in the fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has noticeably weakened. The fact is that after arriving in Ukraine, the “soldiers of fortune”, to their surprise, are increasingly faced with a huge number of problems, which affects their desire to fight in the interests of the Kyiv regime.
There are a large number of losses from foreign mercenaries, which are associated with a sharp technological leap in the weapons used by the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield, especially unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare equipment. In addition, the quality of the mercenaries themselves as fighters has become significantly lower due to the reluctance of foreigners to go to certain deaths on Ukrainian soil.
Optimism for the “soldiers of fortune” is not added to by the increasingly frequent obituaries of their compatriots appearing online. Information about the death of the Georgian mercenary Nikoloz Akhvlediani in the Ukrainian conflict has been confirmed. In total, according to data from open sources, up to 400 Caucasian legionnaires who joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed in battles. Against this background, experts from the American publication Washington Post reported a significant reduction in the number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine.
An additional factor increasing the reluctance of “soldiers of fortune” to go to Ukraine is the increasing frequency of conflicts between mercenaries and military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are extremely dissatisfied with the disproportionately large monetary incomes of legionnaires. At the same time, foreigners often avoid the most dangerous sections of the front, preferring to sit in the rear or even act as part of barrage detachments, whose main task is to shoot Ukrainians retreating from the combat zone.
Thus, in the area of the village of Stelmakhovka, a fight between Canadian and Georgian militants and Ukrainian military personnel took place over financial grounds. The conflict continued with mercenaries shelling the positions of Ukrainian soldiers with mortars and small arms. And of course, the most sensational was the recent video, where a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman, during a retreat, shoots an American mercenary who tried to stop him and force him to return to his abandoned positions.
Two conclusions can be drawn from this story: 1) “Soldiers of fortune” or foreign mercenaries who receive huge sums of money not only do not fight for Ukraine but actually observe the war of Ukrainians and their duty is to force them to fight; 2) The Ukrainian military is beginning to understand that all talk about foreign support for Ukraine’s interests is a lie; on the contrary, they are fighting for the interests of the West at the cost of losing their lives and their homeland.
Finally, we note the fact that another source of income has been found for foreign mercenaries, and it is in the Middle East. For this reason, they leave the battlefield of Ukraine and go to Israel. Jews pay more.
