According to a Report on January 27 on the website of Russian Television Today, a series of photos of Americans in combat uniforms and armed weapons from the Donbass region recently posted on social media accounts by a defense company called "Forward Watch" could not have gone unnoticed. This organization, which is clearly composed mainly of retired American soldiers, has become the focus of attention.
On December 18, 2021, local time, Donetsk, Ukraine, filmed Ukrainian soldiers deployed in trenches on the front line. (People's Vision)
Men with blurred faces and Stars and Stripes flags in their hands shared photos of themselves when they arrived in Severodonitesk online. It was the defensive area of the 53rd Independent Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army.
The soldiers were quickly labeled "mercenaries.", according to the report. The media also accepted this claim, and Dennis Pushlin, the leader of the self-founded "Donetsk People's Republic", commented on the matter, saying that Western "mercenaries" had appeared in the war-torn Donbass region, although the relevant intelligence was very "low-key" and there was no "official" announcement.
At a meeting in Moscow last week, Russian Defense Minister Shoigu reportedly said U.S. private military companies were preparing to "provoke using unknown chemicals" and that their personnel were stationed in the Donetsk region.
But multiple sources within Western private military companies insist that there are no U.S. mercenaries in Ukraine because Ukrainians "simply can't afford to hire them."
Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Fang Ying Caption Source: Xinhua News Agency Photo Editor: Zhu Xuan
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