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Foreign expats living in Ukraine have also fought in the Ukrainian forces. Brahim Saadoun, a Moroccan national, studied in the country as a foreign student from 2019 and enlisted in the Ukrainian army in 2022. He was captured by Russian forces but released to Morocco in September 2022 in an agreement brokered by Saudi Arabia. [110]
On 23 March, the Mayor of Motyzhyn, Olga Sukhenko, was killed by Russian forces. [133] On 31 March, Oleksiy Tsybko, a rugby union player, was killed by Russian forces. [134] On 2 April, the Prosecutor General's office announced the death of photographer Maks Levin due to Russian small-arms fire outside Kyiv. He had disappeared on 13 March. [135]
The Russian Armed Forces accepts foreigners of any country to their ranks. Under a plan, posted on the ministry's web site in 2010, foreigners without dual citizenship are able to sign up for five-year contracts – and are eligible for Russian citizenship after serving three years. According to the amended law, a citizen of any foreign country ...
On 19 March 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the FSB to hunt down and “punish” Russians serving in the Ukrainian military and compared them to the Russian Liberation Army which had collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. [1]
A number of Russian soldiers would fight for Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War as part of the Freedom of Russia Legion. Soviet Volunteer Group, between 1937-1941 as part of the Republic of China Air Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Some Russians fought for the Allies on the Western Front of WW1 as part of the Russian Legion. They ...
Excluding the Russian and Ukrainian military casualties, at least 1,291 combatants, foreign citizens or foreign-born, were killed during the war. By January 2023, another 1,000 had been wounded while fighting on the Ukrainian side. [ 315 ]
The AP identified calls made in March 2022 by soldiers in a military division that Ukrainian prosecutors say committed war crimes in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv that became an early symbol of ...
Orc (Cyrillic: орк, romanised: ork), plural orcs (Russian and Ukrainian: орки), is a pejorative commonly used in Ukraine [1] to refer to a Russian soldier [2] [3] participating in the Russian-Ukrainian War and Russian citizens who support the aggression of Russia against Ukraine.