With the conclusion of the second round of Russian-Ukrainian talks and the agreement between the two sides to cease fire in some areas and build humanitarian passages for civilians, the Russo-Ukrainian war seems to be showing signs of cooling. But in this case, the Ukrainian side began to hype 16,000 "mercenaries" began to arrive in Ukraine one after another, and will participate in combat operations against the Russian army.
Russia and Ukraine reached certain results in the second round of talks
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said that the Ukrainian government is currently receiving a steady stream of aid from European and American countries. Meanwhile, the first personnel of the 16,000 "mercenaries" have arrived in Ukraine and will participate in subsequent military operations against the Russians.
After the war between Russia and Ukraine began, European and American countries initially concealed it, saying that they would only accept civilians to "volunteer to participate in the war" in Ukraine in their personal capacity. As Europe and the United States began to increase sanctions against Russia, European and American countries no longer concealed themselves and began to encourage a large number of retired soldiers or mercenary companies to go to Ukraine in groups in the name of "volunteers" to participate in military operations against Russia. In fact, these "volunteers" are what we usually understand as "mercenaries."
Most of these "mercenaries" are veterans, security companies and defense contractors, who have received long-term paramilitary training and are not inferior to active-duty soldiers in some European and American countries. Taking the United States as an example, the US military in Iraq and the US military in Afghanistan have hired a large number of defense contractors or security companies to undertake some combat tasks.
The advantage of this is that these "mercenaries" do not strictly belong to active-duty soldiers, but to those who fight for money. Once killed and disabled in battle, the economic losses and negative public opinion impact that the US military needs to pay are smaller than those of active soldiers.
At present, Europe and the United States do not dare to directly send troops to participate in the War between Russia and Ukraine, because they are afraid that direct military intervention will trigger a greater military backlash from the Russian side. However, he wanted to weaken the military strength of the Russian army through Ukraine, so he began to give arms to people. Germany, for example, has so far provided Ukraine with 1,000 "Iron Fist 3" anti-tank rocket launchers, 500 "Stinger" man-portable air defense missiles and 2700 stocks of old "Needle" man-portable air defense missiles, not to stop the war, but to cause greater casualties to the Russian army.
In the second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainian side is willing to make some concessions and agree to cease fire with the Russian army in some areas, probably in order to wait for the arrival of these 1600 "mercenaries" and make corresponding preparations for the next counteroffensive of the Ukrainian government army. To put it bluntly, it is that the early fight did not keep up, now first breathe a sigh of relief, and then fight.
Israeli soldiers in Ukrainian uniforms
Of course, the Russian military agreed to a ceasefire in some areas in the second Russian-Ukrainian talks, and also hoped to evacuate Ukrainian civilians as soon as possible. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, in the previous war, in order to prevent the Russian army from attacking, the Ukrainian government army did not allow the Russian army to use heavy weapons, and detained a large number of Ukrainian civilians as a "meat shield", which brought a lot of trouble to the Russian army.
Schematic diagram released by the Russian Ministry of Defense
Therefore, if Ukrainian civilians in some theaters of operations can be evacuated as much as possible, the russian military's next military operations will be smoother, and the restrictions on the use of heavy weapons will be partially relaxed.
As for the 16,000 "mercenaries" that Ukrainian President Zelenskiy has high hopes for, the Russian Defense Ministry also said that these military company personnel sent by the West are not combatants under international humanitarian law and are not entitled to prisoner-of-war status. At the same time, once captured by the Russian army, the Russian army will criminally prosecute these "mercenaries", the sentence of the sentence, the imprisonment of the prisoner.
Personally, I believe that even if these 16,000 "foreign legions" really arrived in Ukraine and participated in military operations against the Russian army, they could not prevent the military victory of the Russian army against Ukraine in general. These so-called "foreign legions" are actually light infantry with strong combat effectiveness, and if they really anger Russia, under the suppression of the heavily armored troops, these 16,000 "foreign legions" will not be able to set off any big storms.
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