
Ukrainian military in the city of BuchaMOSCOW, 19 Apr. The British mercenaries who surrendered in the Donbas were no doubt looking for war and killing people, former US Marine and police officer John Mark Dugan said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. «One of the British, Aiden, as soon as he was caught, began to say that he doesn’t want war, but wants to go home <…> If he served for several years and killed people all this time, then he will have to pay a big price for it, ”the former military man believes. In his opinion, the attempts of the captured mercenaries to pretend victims look ridiculous and ridiculous. Last week, two British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Eslin surrendered to the Russian military after an unsuccessful attempt to break through the 36th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Mariupol. On the air of the Russia 1 TV channel, they turned to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for the opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk, detained in Ukraine.
The family of a British soldier who surrendered claims that he is not a mercenaryAccording to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, «the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not are combatants, the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.” On February 24, Russia launched a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» threatens. By March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.

