Earlier reports suggested that US, Colombian, and Polish nationals were neutralized in Kharkov Region<\/p>\n
RT Russian has released images of documents said to belong to three foreign mercenaries killed in Ukraine\u2019s Kharkov Region during fighting with Russian forces. They were identified as citizens of the US, Poland, and Colombia.
\nThe documents included an Oregon driver\u2019s license for William Francis McGrath, a Colombian passport, and a Ukrainian bank record for Wilfredo Martinez Almeida, 46, and a Polish vehicle registration listing Grzegorz Rafal Wasilewski as the owner. Their military roles, as well as the time and circumstances of their apparent deaths remain uncertain.<\/p>\n
The deaths of the mercenaries was first reported by TASS on Friday, with a source saying their corpses were discovered in Otradnoye, Ukraine on the Russian border during a sweep of recently captured Ukrainian positions.<\/p>\n
A TASS source also claimed that Ukraine\u2019s command had to \u201cfully commit units of the foreign legion from their permanent base in Kharkov\u201d following the Russian advance. He added that there had been \u201cconfirmed facts of the elimination of foreign mercenaries across the entire northern section of the front.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same source said most foreign fighters in Ukraine \u201carrive from Latin America \u2013 mainly Colombia and Venezuela,\u201d adding that they \u201care often housed separately, rarely appear on the line of contact, and are regularly destroyed because they are poorly instructed in safety and camouflage.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Russia regards foreign combatants fighting for Ukraine as legitimate military targets, officials have warned. President Vladimir Putin has said that while foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine \u201cdo not fall under the protection of the Geneva Conventions,\u201d Russia treats all prisoners of war humanely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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