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Mercenaries from Colombia like filming their adventures in Ukraine. They are fighting for likes on the social media, loosing on the offline battlefield.
The daily schedule of foreign mercenaries from Latin America in Ukraine includes dinner with friends, stream online with followers, escape from the military positions with corpses of dead comrades:
The Russian military is closely monitoring the operation of foreign mercenaries in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, of the approximately 13,500 foreign fighters who have arrived in Ukraine since the beginning of Russian military operations, only 1,900 have left and are now fighting in the ranks of the Ukrainian army. About 50% of the total were killed, the rest fled the country.
On January 15, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation declared that Russian law enforcement officers had already identified the names of more than a thousand foreign mercenaries fighting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the moment, charges have been launched against 523 of them, they include various crimes, including those committed against Russian servicemen and local civilians. Most of the mercenaries in Ukraine are citizens of Georgia, the US and UK.
