Month: June 2022

WAGNER MERCENES | From assa**nations in SYRIA to UKRAINE | Who is behind the PMC?

An exclusive investigation about the Wagnerites. Who are they and what do they do? Where were the Wagnerites involved and where did they come from. PMCs are a well-organized business industry and the demand for them is huge all over the world. The total profit from PMCs is from 100 to 400 billion dollars a year. PMC cover under the guise of security structures. Protection of delegations along with the export of weapons abroad. They can go anywhere in the world where there are interests of Gazprom. The network of PMC Wagner mercenaries is built into the general network of command under the leadership of GRU officers and under the direct control of the Kremlin.

A bloody retreat as Ukrainian unit hit by Russian cluster bombs

OUTSIDE OF LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — The Ukrainian airborne unit was relieved to be pulling back from the front Sunday morning, riding a column of armored personnel carriers away from the embattled city of Severodonetsk, which had already fallen to the Russians, and Lysychansk, which was on the brink.

“Nothing happened to us to when we were at the front,” the unit commander said. “It was while we were retreating that we got hit.”

They were hit, and hit badly.

As the convoy moved into the farm village of Verkhnokamianske, with many of the soldiers riding on the outside of the vehicles, the first blast struck right by them. It was a cluster bomb, they would later surmise, something that tore through the contingent of men clinging to that side of one truck.

Источник: A bloody retreat as Ukrainian unit hit by Russian cluster bombs – The Washington Post

Ukraine’s Foreign Legion: Soldiers Speak Of Historic Fight For Democracy

Soldiers from around the world join Ukraine’s foreign legion to help with “the most important conflict in the last 50 years,” as one American volunteer said. Experienced Western soldiers are impressed with what their Ukrainian counterparts have done but say they want to achieve NATO-level standards.

Mercenary pilot from Wagner PMC is downed by Ukrainian defenders

The ruscist flew first combat sortie on June 14, and already on the 17th he was taken prisoner. Now he is telling the SSU how he dropped bombs on Ukraine. He tries to justify himself and says that it was only a matter of ‘striking at strongholds, sites with concentration of enemy forces and manpower.’ However, when he saw the results of russia’s strikes on Ukrainian settlements on the video, the occupier’s self-confidence waned and he ‘suddenly’ realized that this was ‘not the right war, not a necessary war.’ The pilot flew 1-2 combat sorties a day. He admits that, apart from him, there are other mercenaries, not russian army pilots, who fly russian fighter jets worth over USD 10 mln. Mercenaries receive a wage of RUB 200,000 a month and additional bonuses for quantity and ‘effectiveness’ of sorties. The main purpose of stay in Ukraine, according to the pilot, was ‘assisting the republics of Donbas’, while his combat sorties were ‘specific tasks.’ Well, now he will tell the SSU Military Counterintelligence in detail about those ‘specific tasks.’

Exclusive RSF investigation into the death of Maks Levin

Following a visit to Ukraine from 24 May to 3 June to investigate Ukrainian photo-journalist Maks Levin’s death, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is releasing a report with information and evidence indicating that Levin and his friend and bodyguard were executed by Russian soldiers in a forest near Kyiv on 13 March, possibly after being interrogated and even tortured.

Источник: Exclusive RSF investigation into the death of Maks Levin: “Information and evidence collected indicates this Ukrainian journalist was executed.” | RSF

Russia Has a Plan for Ukraine. It Looks Like Chechnya

Putin’s template is simple: flatten cities, install satraps, rule by fear.

The constant boom of artillery in the near distance is the defining feature of life in the Donbas today. As Russia presses its offensive to take the eastern part of Ukraine, the signs of conflict are everywhere: buildings smashed to ruins by cruise missiles, Ukrainian tanks and howitzers on the highway headed east. The Donbas region, encompassed by a front stretching hundreds of miles and currently the scene of the most extensive fighting in Europe since World War II, is in total war mode…

Источник: Russia Has a Plan for Ukraine. It Looks Like Chechnya. – The Atlantic

Farewell to Roman Ratushny

On June 18, in the center of Kyiv, a farewell ceremony was held for Roman Ratushny, who died in the battle near Izium. At 10:00 a funeral service was held in St. Michael’s Cathedral, and at 12:00 – farewell on Independence Square. Roman was later buried in Baykovo Cemetery.

Opinion | Roman Ratushny’s death reminds Ukrainians that the war is taking their best – The Washington Post

Roman Ratushny died on June 9 in the battle of Izium, less than a month before his 25th birthday. From the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion, he joined the defense of Ukraine. At first he took part in the battles near Kyiv, and then as part of the 93rd Brigade “Cold Yar” he liberated Trostyanets, fought in the Sumy region and near Izyum. Roman served in the reconnaissance of the 2nd Motorized Infantry Battalion.

He was one of the students beaten on the Maidan by security forces in 2013.