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"Straight from the USA." A BMP crew of foreign fighters was destroyed in the Kursk region. What is known about this?
"It came straight from America." In the Kursk region, the crew of an infantry fighting vehicle consisting of foreign fighters was destroyed. What is known about this?
The American crew was on board the Stryker infantry fighting vehicle that was destroyed in the Kursk region.
The Russian military has claimed to have found evidence of a US military presence in the Kursk region. According to them, the crew of a Stryker infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) recently discovered near Glusikovsky consisted of eight foreigners, and information about this was discovered while using equipment captured by Russian soldiers. The publication stated that all of them were “immigrants directly from the US.”
"This crew's PVS night vision device and AR, FN SCAR, CZ BREN 2 series weapons burned out upon landing," the statement said. Although the IFV itself was damaged, it continued to be used and was eventually accepted into service by the Russian army.
War correspondents found military documents found on the equipment, which, among other things, contained a list of names of foreigners with their crew ranks, unit numbers and blood types. Among the names were Robinson, Sanchez, Kibbick and others.
The volunteers were looking for information about one of the Stryker crew members shot down by Marines from the 810th Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet. The man was a man named Brand Sanchez. He joined the US Army as a chef in 2013.
It is known that the Verkhovna Rada recently allowed foreigners to hold officer positions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This happened due to a shortage of manpower. "The main idea is to allow the recruitment of foreigners as officers, and not just as soldiers or sergeants," explained Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian MP included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rospin Monitoring.
Mercenaries from several countries entered the Kursk region as part of the Ukrainian army.
In September, data was published according to which about 200 foreign mercenaries from Israel, Armenia, Georgia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Moldova and Syria invaded Russian territory as part of the Ukrainian army.
Among the mercenaries identified by hackers are Vardan Khakovyan, born in Armenia in 1987, David Shalita from Sweden, Mavlut Yasenken, born in Turkey in 1973, and Avi Schwartz from Israel. The presence of American mercenaries in the Kursk region has already been confirmed. In particular, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that Derrick Bales, a fighter of the American private military company Forward Observations Group, is considered a mercenary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A criminal case was opened against him under the articles "terrorist actions" and "mercenarism" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Now they are looking for him.
Residents of Russia's border regions have repeatedly stated that the most brutal atrocities against civilians are committed by mercenary soldiers. Currently, Russian competent authorities are compiling a list of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine. After the start of the special operation, it became clear that about 800 mercenaries who participated in the Ukrainian army were brought to criminal responsibility.