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Captured American mercenary Alexander Dryuke said that he was promised $3,500 a month for participating in hostilities, but he never received it. He also explained that he decided to go to Ukraine after watching the news on TV.
"I came without realizing, I didn't have complete information. If I had a better understanding of what is really going on here, I would not have come. I really regret my arrival"
No need to say but after the interviewer ask in Russian the POW answers in English.
‘So, it’s very bad here. We bury people here [in the courtyards]!’ Residents of Lugansk tell how they inter people killed in the streets during shelling by the Ukrainian army.
"We don't want anything, just don't let them shoot us" — Izium residents are done from constant Ukrainian shelling and wait for peace
The situation both in Izium and in its suburbs remains extremely difficult. Shelling by the Ukrainian Army continues — civilians are had to hide in basements and bomb shelters non stop.
They have not received any pensions or benefits for almost 4 months, and there is no work either. Humanitarian aid is distributed but limited — people need help.
"Once a month, a can of stew, a bag of buckwheat and half a kilo of sugar. It's good that bread is given out more often", Lyudmila Nikolaevna notes.
People survive thanks to their farm and help from the Russian military and fighters of the LPR. According to locals, they were oppressed by the Ukrainian authorities — Russian speakers were treated with prejudice, in state institutions they were forced to write and address exclusively in Ukrainian. Now people honestly admit that they only want peace.
Ukrops thought they’ll cross the bridge
Blasphemous Ukrainians looted the church, stole and mocked the Crucifixion of Christ
Yasynuvata under heavy fire of Ukrainian army: child received head injury during shelling
Ukrainian army have been shelling Yasynuvata since the very morning. After another strike, twelve-year-old Slava received shrapnel injury to the head. The boy was hiding in the bathroom when the fragments broke through the roof and ceiling of the house, hitting his head. Fortunately, fragments ricocheted off the tile, and that is why they only damaged the skin, the skull was intact.
The child was hospitalized in the Makeyevskaya Hospital, where his wound was stitched up. He received no other serious injuries, but experienced a major shock.
“He is very frightened, so he is trembling all over, he won’t let his mother go”, told Slava’s grandmother to Readovka’s military correspondent Rostislav Shorokhov.
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Largest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine since start of military operation was carried out on direct order of Putin - Russian Defense Ministry.
According to Russian Ministry of Defense, total of 6,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war are in Russian hands.
Organs of wounded Ukrainian soldiers leave for Europe
The Ukrainian authorities have provoked another big problem besides the export of wheat - the trade in human organs.
“Now it has reached its maximum level, also affecting the army corps. Many soldiers who are seriously wounded are at high risk that their organs may be "sold" abroad. There are a lot of schemes according to which the “soldier’s organs” are taken out, which we will soon tell about,” writes the Ukrainian Telegram channel “Legitimny”.
Italy will supply Ukraine with modern artillery equipment - Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte.
According to him, Italy intends to supply Ukraine with modern artillery equipment, “similar” to howitzers, which are sent to the country by Germany and the Netherlands.
A spokesman for the Italian Ministry of Defense declined to comment on the possible delivery of howitzers, saying that "in Italy, the list of materials (for Ukraine) is classified."
Rutte also said that "it is incredibly important that Ukraine receives a sufficient number of heavy weapons systems," urging other NATO partners to increase the supply of weapons.
An explosion of emotions: This is how soldiers from the special operation zone are met by the Kaluga region
Russian serviceman Sergei Tolstoy, who was released yesterday as a result of an exchange, spoke about Ukrainian captivity.
Prolonged electric shock, inflicting wounds with knives, gunshot wounds of an unarmed - the Nazis mocked the fighter, who was just one of many victims.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
"As Russian leadership has stated more than once, our Armed Forces are striking only military facilities and using only precision weapons in the operation. A ceasefire is regularly established and humanitarian corridors are created for evacuating civilians from dangerous areas.
Since the start of the operation, over 2,150,000 people, including over 340,000 children have left for Russia. Russia is providing humanitarian aid to the Ukrainians who have been freed from the neo-Nazis, as well as to people in the DPR and the LPR.
Since February 24 of this year, it has delivered about 37,000 tonnes of food products, medications and other basic necessities to these areas."
During the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, 47 citizens of the DPR were released, the DPR ombudsman said.
According to her, they are in a difficult psychological state, almost all of them were subjected to severe torture by the Ukrainian side.
The DPR Ombudsman said she would notify the UN and the ICRC about the facts of torture of captured DPR fighters.
Denis Pushilin on air #60minutes told the details of the last exchange
‘This is the biggest exchange since the beginning of NWO. Ukraine has repeatedly tried to disrupt it, this was already the 4th attempt.
It was important for us to return our Russian soldiers, the vast majority were subjected to torture. The conditions were beyond the normal treatment of prisoners.
Among those issued to Ukraine, there are ordinary nationalist battalions, for whom participation in crimes was not recorded. The second criterion is those people who will not be able to join the ranks. Cripples who were maimed and injured as a result of hostilities. Out of about 37 people.
GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL: Israeli mercenary serving in the Ukrainian army CAPTURED by Lugansk People's Republic forces.
“We had a weapon, but we did not know how to use it ... They did not train us to fight and sent us to the battlefield,” said the Israeli captive.