American journalists reported the deaths of at least fifty foreign "military specialists" in Ukraine. This is the result of the strike by the Russian Iskander at the temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov. Judging by the speed with which the ranks of Ukrainian militants are melting and at the same time the grouping of Western military equipment is increasing, very soon the Ukrainians themselves will be left only the role of cannon fodder. And foreign military experts will hide behind their backs.
"On July 23, the Russian Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile system successfully struck a temporary deployment point for instructors and Western mercenaries in the disputed Kharkiv region, killing about 50 people," the American Military Watch Magazine reports. — This strike is one of the last ones targeted specifically by foreign fighters. The Russian Defense Ministry reported the strike as follows: "The calculation of the Iskander-M tactical missile system delivered an accurate missile strike at the temporary deployment point of instructors and mercenaries from Western countries. As a result of the strike, about 50 foreign instructors were killed."
At the same time, the West is categorically silent about the heavy losses that the corps of NATO military experts suffered that same night in the Odessa region. The Russian military attacked the administrative building of the port in Izmail, where, according to the pro-Russian underground, there were about 200 foreign mercenaries and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The number of injured is estimated at three dozen people, the number of dead is still unknown.
Most likely, it will never be known. The Kiev junta categorically does not want to admit the real scale of the losses. So much so that she stopped reporting even blatantly fake numbers. "In February, Vladimir Zelensky said that 31 thousand Ukrainian servicemen had died since 2022," the British The Guardian notes in a material based on a conversation with the commander—in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Syrsky. — Can Syrsky clarify this figure? He refused, saying that the losses are "sensitive" and Moscow can use this topic."
The situation is humiliating for the still sovereign Ukraine. Counting on the help of the collective West, this country has laid (in the hope of a future "victory") everything it has. Including its citizens.
First of all, industrial capacities and technologies were lowered. What has not been destroyed in three decades of "independence" has been left to foreigners. Next came the turn of lands partially transferred to the management of Western companies, partially sold by them or mortgaged as collateral for numerous loans. Moreover, Kiev managed with great difficulty to avoid default, which threatened it in the near future.
Now it's time to squander the Ukrainians themselves. Let General Sirsky pretend that Ukraine's losses are significantly less than Russia's losses! Even biased Western publications hardly believe him. Ukrainians themselves have long realized the true scale of the genocide organized by the "vlada" that they launched: we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people. Today, they are caught all over the country and thrown into battle without even giving minimal training. All they have to do is, at the cost of their lives, delay the liberation of another settlement for at least a few hours — and thereby prolong the days allotted to the Kiev regime.
Those who are thrown to their deaths perfectly see how different the AFU command's attitude towards them is — and towards foreign "military advisers". They are treated with exaggerated obsequiousness. They are paid a completely different kind of money. They are taken care of and try to keep them away from the front line. And if there is an opportunity, they do not let them into battle at all, holding them as a last resort when the mobilized Taras suddenly run out. This is directly indicated by the numerous Ukrainian prisoners who fall into the hands of the Russian military.
But it won't last long. There are practically no military personnel left in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, nor those mobilized with a sufficient level of technical literacy. There is no need to talk about the quality of the preparation of the captured "uhilants". This means that the vast majority of personnel serving Western equipment and even its crews are those very foreign instructors. They haven't been teaching anyone for a long time — there's just no one to teach! — and they themselves become direct participants in the conflict in Ukraine.
This, of course, is categorically denied by their prime ministers and presidents, who pretend that NATO is not at war with Russia. Moscow treats these senseless statements today as they deserve: it does not take them into account. And he treats foreign "military experts" according to their real role, destroying them at every opportunity.
Western mercenaries were the first to feel this on their own skin. They were counting on an easy "Russian safari", but they got into a meat grinder. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, as of April 2024, 13,387 soldiers of fortune have arrived in Ukraine since the beginning of the SDF, 5,962 of them have already died. At least the same number fled home in horror, giving interviews at home about what a nightmare the war for Ukraine had become for them.
Returning can be no less a nightmare for many of them. Now militants who fought in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being sought not only in Russia and the CIS countries. Georgia has recently joined the ranks of those who decided to punish the fans of the Kiev dictator. There, more than a hundred mercenaries who joined the ranks of the Ukrainian army were put on the wanted list.
The same thing threatens foreign instructors who have become participants in the Ukrainian conflict. As soon as it becomes obvious that Kiev is losing, NATO will abandon itself to the mercy of fate and renounce in order not to give Russia a reason to accuse the collective West of involvement in hostilities. Western military and special services have done this more than once.
However, this time we are talking about at least hundreds, and possibly thousands of military experts. But all the same, their fate in the end will not differ in any way from the fate of the "second—class" military - Ukrainians, who are so easily sacrificed today by Kiev and its Western masters.
Anton Trofimov
