> > **The Colombians joined a foreign legion in Ukraine in summer 2023. Now they’re jailed in Moscow after being captured in Caracas.** > > > Russia’s security service on Friday said it had detained two Colombian citizens for fighting on Ukraine’s side, in the first such case made public since the beginning of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion. > > The extradition and arrest is likely designed to spook other foreigners who might consider joining Ukraine’s armed forces, as well as underscoring Russia’s alliance with countries such as strongman leader Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela. > > The two men, Alexander Ante and José Aron Medina, joined a foreign legion in Ukraine in summer 2023, local Colombian and other Spanish-language media reported. > > According to those reports, the men were detained in mid- July by Venezuelan law enforcement on their way back home during a layover in Caracas, and then extradited to Russia. > > In an online statement, Russia’s FSB said the men were found to be carrying documents “confirming unlawful activity” and clothing connected to Carpathian Sich, a battalion which includes foreign fighters in Ukraine. > > On Wednesday, a Moscow court placed the men in pre-trial detention in Moscow’s high-security Lefortovo prison while they are investigated for paid participation in an armed conflict, which in Russia carries a maximum sentence of up to 15 years behind bars. > > The FSB also published a video of the two men being led down a corridor with their heads down, and identifying themselves on camera, presumably under duress. > > Russia, meanwhile, is itself actively recruiting mercenaries abroad for its own war effort against Ukraine, including in Cuba and India, with promises of sky-high salaries and fast-tracked Russian citizenship. > > The Russian state also maintains close links to Russian mercenary groups, such as Wagner, which — as well as fighting in Ukraine — is especially active in Africa. >
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Leftists are very quiet about this socialist hellhole
This is quite a controversial gift.
when the article was first published (two weeks ago), some people online were not happy with the text body equaling the two Colombians and Wagner PMC as mercenaries. Saying the article should have clarified whether fighting in the Ukrainian foreign legion qualifies as such. The article is written by the former editor in chief of the Moscow Times.
Keep that in mind while reading.
The title of this post is the gift to putin: those people were _not_ mercenaries, they were legitimate soldiers of Ukrainian Army.
Human booty?
Not Venezuelans, but Colombian men offered by Maduro to Putin as tribute!
The violent dictator of a failed country (that could be the richest of South America) that ties with another dictator from another failing country. Nice!
This dude will do all he can to bring alll latam into obscure goverment like his.
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> **The Colombians joined a foreign legion in Ukraine in summer 2023. Now they’re jailed in Moscow after being captured in Caracas.**
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> Russia’s security service on Friday said it had detained two Colombian citizens for fighting on Ukraine’s side, in the first such case made public since the beginning of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion.
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> The extradition and arrest is likely designed to spook other foreigners who might consider joining Ukraine’s armed forces, as well as underscoring Russia’s alliance with countries such as strongman leader Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela.
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> The two men, Alexander Ante and José Aron Medina, joined a foreign legion in Ukraine in summer 2023, local Colombian and other Spanish-language media reported.
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> According to those reports, the men were detained in mid- July by Venezuelan law enforcement on their way back home during a layover in Caracas, and then extradited to Russia.
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> In an online statement, Russia’s FSB said the men were found to be carrying documents “confirming unlawful activity” and clothing connected to Carpathian Sich, a battalion which includes foreign fighters in Ukraine.
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> On Wednesday, a Moscow court placed the men in pre-trial detention in Moscow’s high-security Lefortovo prison while they are investigated for paid participation in an armed conflict, which in Russia carries a maximum sentence of up to 15 years behind bars.
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> The FSB also published a video of the two men being led down a corridor with their heads down, and identifying themselves on camera, presumably under duress.
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> Russia, meanwhile, is itself actively recruiting mercenaries abroad for its own war effort against Ukraine, including in Cuba and India, with promises of sky-high salaries and fast-tracked Russian citizenship.
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> The Russian state also maintains close links to Russian mercenary groups, such as Wagner, which — as well as fighting in Ukraine — is especially active in Africa.
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Leftists are very quiet about this socialist hellhole
This is quite a controversial gift.
when the article was first published (two weeks ago), some people online were not happy with the text body equaling the two Colombians and Wagner PMC as mercenaries. Saying the article should have clarified whether fighting in the Ukrainian foreign legion qualifies as such. The article is written by the former editor in chief of the Moscow Times.
Keep that in mind while reading.
The title of this post is the gift to putin: those people were _not_ mercenaries, they were legitimate soldiers of Ukrainian Army.
Human booty?
Not Venezuelans, but Colombian men offered by Maduro to Putin as tribute!
The violent dictator of a failed country (that could be the richest of South America) that ties with another dictator from another failing country. Nice!
This dude will do all he can to bring alll latam into obscure goverment like his.