The Russian Defense Ministry alleged that Kyiv uses foreign fighters in the Ukrainian forces as cannon fodder. The leadership sends many of these foreign volunteers to the front lines to be captured or, worse, to get killed. Many of them are injured and some killed in combat, but they are considered expendable by the military.
Kyiv Sacrifices Foreign Volunteers First
According to a top Russian defense official, Ukraine is using foreign volunteers as cannon fodder in its conflict with Moscow, RT reported.
Major General Igor Konashenkov added that the militants typically lack training and battle experience.
Furthermore, Ukrainian commanders do not reserve foreigners, and they are given up first in response to decrease losses among their forces. He also stated that a large number of mercenaries regret their actions and want to leave, but Zelensky and his Nazi commanders prohibit them from doing so, per the CSM Times.
Konashenkov is the spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, stating that the volume of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine to take part in hostilities against Russian armed forces has practically started to dry up since the start of May.
According to Moscow's information, he claimed at a press conference that the influx of overseas fighters in Ukraine had already decreased from 6,600 to 3,500.
The Russian Defense Ministry stressed that hundreds of foreign fighters from abroad in Ukraine were killed by Russian long-range precision weapons shortly after arriving at locations where they were receiving additional training and tactical units are coordinated, noted Threadtimes.
The Ukrainians are getting these wannabe mercenaries who got themselves killed in the frontline where their commanders intended them to be; expendable assets.
Many died in the conflict because of insufficient training and were not battle-hardened veterans; that did not matter to Zelensky's commander.
He said that attempts by Ukrainian authorities to give legal protection to foreign volunteers by attaching them to Armed Forces lists or granting them Ukrainian passports would not safeguard them from liability.
Captured Foreigner Charged for War Crimes
The announcement came several days after the Donetsk People's Republic's General Prosecutor's Office proclaimed the detention of three suspected mercenaries from the United Kingdom and Morocco. Joining the Ukrainian military and later being caught by the DPR forces might get the death penalty due to war crimes.
Last March, foreign fighters who wanted to go to Ukraine and join the forces of the Russia-backed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics should be given permission, according to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
The Russian defense minister confirmed that 16,000 foreigners, most from the Middle East, are hardened jihadi fighters, unlike Kyiv's force of less experienced ones.
Russian President Vladimir Putin backed the idea, referring to Russia's Ukrainian enemies who have been trying to recruit foreign volunteers.
Following Ukraine's failing to deliver the terms of the Minsk agreements, initially signed in 2014, and Moscow's ultimate acknowledgment of the Donbas republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, Moscow ordered an offensive on the nearby state in late February.
The protocols negotiated by Germany and France were intended to grant the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.
Since Ukraine crossed Putin's red line, dropping neutrality led to the incursion, but Kyiv denies all provocation. Russian Defense Ministry officials reveal that all foreign fighters encouraged by Kyiv were fed inconsistencies with alleged lies that led to many becoming cannon-fodder.
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