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3 British ex-special forces killed by Russian airstrike on Ukraine military facility, Moscow vows 'no mercy' for mercenaries

Andy Gregory and Tom Batchelo
The Independent
Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:12 UTC

Fears that three British ex-special forces troops have been killed by a Russian attack in Ukraine are being investigated.

UK authorities are investigating after dozens were killed in a missile strike close to the Ukrainian border with Nato member Poland on Sunday, amid unconfirmed reports that three Britons were among the casualties.

There has been no official confirmation of their deaths.

More than 30 missiles targeted a training facility in Yavoriv, less than 15 miles from the Polish border, according to the governor of Ukraine's western Lviv region. More than 130 people were injured.

Comment: As you'll read in the next article below, this was a major military facility and more than 180 fighters were killed.

However a source told the Daily Mirror that there were "many more killed within the site than has been claimed" and that the three men who reportedly died had not been part of a foreign fighters unit that was being trained at the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security.

Comment: Russia has been consistent by only targetting facilities being used to wage war. It's actually rather telling that they would even try to claim that the centre was for 'peacekeeping'.

The Ministry of Defence said it could only comment on cases involving military personnel.

Comment: So they were foreign mercenaries with links to Western governments.

Asked in the aftermath of the attack, sources at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) told The Daily Mirror that they were unaware of any British casualties among the dead.

British citizens are advised against all travel to Ukraine by the FCDO, while transport secretary Grant Shapps warned British troops and ex-service personnel last week that it is illegal for them to join the fighting in Ukraine.

Following a similar warning from defence secretary Ben Wallace, Mr Shapps told ITV's Good Morning Britain that any Briton who does so risks worsening a "dangerous situation".

The training centre appeared to be the most westerly target struck so far in the 18-day conflict, deepening fears of an escalation in the war should Russian missiles inadvertently strike Poland.

Comment: These airstrikes are incredibly precise, Russia's performance in Syria has shown that time and again. The West however somehow 'mistakenly' bombs hospitals, schools, critical factories, weddings, its two decade war of aggression in the Middle East has proven that time and again.

Nato said on Sunday that it currently does not have any personnel in Ukraine, though the US has increased the number of US troops deployed to Poland and neighbouring countries.

The Russian attack involved air-launched cruise missiles fired from Russian airspace by long-range bombers, a senior US defence official said on Monday.

The official added that there were no US troops, contractors or civilian government workers at the base.

Comment: Claims that can't be believed. Further, what about private US mercenaries? And the US-backed terrorists the US is shipping to Ukraine, via Poland? Russia warns Washington is transferring ISIS fighters from Syria to Ukraine via Poland

In Moscow, defence ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said Russia had used high-precision, long-range weapons to strike Yavoriv and a separate facility in the village of Starichi.

"As a result of the strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large amount of foreign weapons were destroyed," he claimed.

The 140-square mile facility is one of Ukraine's biggest and is the largest in the western part of the country, which has so far been spared the worst of the fighting.

The attack is reported to have spurred Poles to rush to passport offices and stockpile essentials amid fears among residents that the war could cut off supplies, or even spill over into Poland.

Comment: One can't really blame them because Poland's government have been threatening to escalate the situation in ways that the US apparently doesn't dare: US rejects Poland's offer to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine

Downing Street said the strike so close to a Nato member was "deeply concerning" and that the UK is seeking to build the "broadest possible coalition" against the Russian aggression.

"We want everyone in the international community to condemn Putin's barbaric acts," Boris Johnson's official spokesman said.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken also condemned the attack, saying: "The brutality must stop."

Following the attack, Russia's defence ministry warned it would take further military action against foreign fighters in Ukraine.

"At these facilities, the Kiev regime deployed a training centre for foreign mercenaries before being sent to the areas of hostilities against Russian military personnel, as well as a storage base for weapons and equipment coming from foreign countries," it said in a statement.

"As a result of the strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large shipment of foreign weapons were destroyed. The destruction of foreign mercenaries who arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue."

Comment: RT reports:

Russia sends message to foreign mercenaries in Ukraine

© AP Photo/Pavlo PalamarchukFile photo: Ukrainian soldiers drill with NLAW anti-tank missiles at the Yavorov training ground near Lvov, western Ukraine, January 28, 2022.
Western governments encouraging their citizens to enlist in Ukraine will be responsible for their death, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Monday, vowing to continue the strikes such as the one that destroyed the Yavorov base and show no mercy to mercenaries.

"All locations of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine are known to us," Russian military spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on Monday. "I want to warn you again - there will be no mercy for the mercenaries, no matter where they are on the territory of Ukraine."

Konashenkov said a number of Western governments have encouraged their citizens to fight against Russian troops as mercenaries, adding that "all further responsibility for the death of this category of foreign citizens in Ukraine rests solely with the leadership of these countries."

"Targeted strikes will continue," Konashenkov said, specifically referring to Sunday's cruise missile attack on the military bases in Yavorov and nearby Starichi in western Ukraine.

According to Moscow, the missile salvo destroyed the facilities used by the "International Legion of Ukraine" and killed "up to 180 foreign fighters."

Kiev officials said that 35 people were killed and 130 injured in the attack on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security, the official name of the military base near Yavorov. It had been used for years by NATO personnel to train Ukrainian troops.

Because the US has been preparing to attack Russia in this manner for decades.

While Ukrainian authorities insist that no foreign fighters were killed in the strike, several British outlets have reported that three former UK special forces operatives died at Yavorov, and "many more killed within the site than has been claimed." This has not been officially confirmed by London. Meanwhile, Washington insisted no "US troops, contractors or civilian government workers" were present at Yavorov.

Moscow sent troops into Ukraine last month, citing seven years of failure by Kiev to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements and make peace with the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. Russia had recognized the two Donbass republics as independent states just days earlier. Kiev has accused Moscow of an unprovoked attack.

US mercenaries tell of their experience and subsequent escape:

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Curse_of_Canaan · 2022-03-15T21:28:15Z

Wonder what they were doing in Russia? Seems like a long way away from the wife and children.

Only saying.

Heosphorus · 2022-03-16T03:41:56Z

From Breitbart concerning the International Peacekeeping and Security Center: " The facility, also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, has long been used to train Ukrainian military personnel, often with instructors from the United States [Link] and other NATO countries."

In my ongoing musings on the movie-set war (Yes. Sorry. People are being killed. I don't deny that fact.), you might find this link [Link] edifying. You might also like to peruse [Link] this link.

Someone who can speak to Russian strategy. An Indian general analyzes the war. [Link]

codis · 2022-03-16T07:13:09Z

Heosphorus

Someone who can speak to Russian strategy. An Indian general analyzes the war. [Link]

It seems common sense can be "outdoctrinated" as well. Very little is left of it in the leadership circles of the West.

This Indian general just states the obvious, you don't need to be a strategic genius to come to that conclusion.

Heosphorus · 2022-03-17T05:05:26Z

codis Well said. Since I don't really give a damn one way or the other about This Conflict in the Ukraine, I've noticed an interesting tactic. As you say, the Indian general talks about Russia's action which everyone can easily observe. He gives some insights. What happens **in the news cycle** is that hundreds of other "stories" erupt with no consequence or meaning but directing.....da da daaaah...the... Narrative!

So...people become entangled in web within web of meaningless analyses and people talking but actually saying nothing.

Everything is emotion. People wrap themselves in Ukraine's flag. Biden calls Putin a war criminal. (Snigger. Who's been bombing Yemenese children for decades under the cloak of supporting their good ally Saudi Arabia? Who has caused such widespread famine for years in Yemen that the denizens resorted to eating bark off the trees? See what I mean? Who's the real criminal here?)

But, yes, codis, emotion has replaced thinking for nearly 95.6% of Americans. Let's give the comedian from Ukraine a standing O as he asks the U.S. to nuke Russia. "You owe me," he said. What's the problem with a no-fly zone? Today's news tells that 35% of Americans would risk nuke war with Russia over Ukraine. Unfortunately, because they grew up with politically correct education, they grew up with none. My generation grew up in the shadow of Nuke War and read post apocalyptic novels like Alas, Babylon or On the Beach ...and ended up thinking that nuke war was not a very good idea.

Here's an example of people not saying anything and actually having trouble stringing two thoughts together. [Link] She's third line to the U.S. presidency. Do you notice a pattern here, codis? Kamala (2nd in line) goes to Poland and laughs her Hyena Laugh about refugees. When the woman has to string together anything resembling a thought, she lapses into a personality which isn't there and laughs. Intellect on the IQ Meter = 32. Biden has no IQ; Biden is a drooling little kid who wants to talk about sitting around the kitchen (which he never did) and driving his semi down Route 66 (all make believe).

Is this level of American leadership a happenstance, codis? I say NOT! Look what the Elite have done to us! We have leaders who barely register on an IQ test and whose mental faculties left them ten years ago.

So, people like the good Indian general, with simple common sense, look like Albert Einstein to us.

codis · 2022-03-17T06:20:25Z

Heosphorus

As you say, the Indian general talks about Russia's action which everyone can easily observe.

Here is the first clue ...

You can't observe it when watching the mass media. You see only fake imagery and fabricated reports. You need to look for yourself - far too much effort for many ...

But, yes, codis, emotion has replaced thinking for nearly 95.6% of Americans.

And yes, this is the second one. Not only in the US. Just "press the triggers" carefully implemented in the "education" (read: indoctrination) phase, and you sway them around at you wish.

Fear the virus, fear the Russian, fear the Chinese, fear the alien ...

Heosphorus · 2022-03-18T04:29:28Z

codis How true!! I haven't watched legacy TV news in years. I stopped watching TV in that time period, too. I streamed programs for a few years. Since moving into my new place 1 1/2 years ago, I haven't even plugged in my TV for streaming. Nada.

I only read online...which, sometimes, can deliver false conclusions, too.

I was far too hasty in denouncing American thinking yesterday, for today I was alerted to this retired U.S. colonel who absolutely thrilled me with his honesty. Called Zelinsky a puppet. I present Col. Douglas Macgregor. [Link] Probably most of you have seen the interview. I had not.

I mean the following with all sincerity...I am absoutely enjoying life. Many different avenues are opening for me right now. I have given short shrift to news and analyses by adopting more exciting explorations so folks will have to pardon my tardiness and ignorance with news.

I hope all goes well with your family and you, Codis. I was delighted to read that Austria will go no further implementing Covid passports.

codis · 2022-03-18T06:44:42Z

Heosphorus

I hope all goes well with your family and you, Codis.

So far, all is ok. My wife's family is not directly in harm's way, i.e. in an area without intensive fights. Not much damage in their town, except military facilities.

I was delighted to read that Austria will go no further implementing Covid passports.

It just stopped, but they did not give up. The fight will go on.

B ut I have a hunch we will have other, more pressing problems this fall ...

Heosphorus · 2022-03-19T04:10:11Z

codis What kind of problems in the fall?

codis · 2022-03-19T16:38:19Z

Heosphorus Economy ?

Energy ?

Financial ?

I am no soothsayer, but the West is head over ears in debt, morally bankrupt across the board, and has an overly complex and fragile economic system. It seems the current war is the Black Swan that nobody factored in.

About 6 months ago I had a similar discussion with Christian83, and we agreed next spring (which is now) the world would look quite different. And here we are. That was not too difficult to predict.

Heosphorus · 2022-03-20T06:21:56Z

codis I think that many of the predictions voiced in the past have been fulfilled or are currently being fulfilled. The collapse of the U.S. dollar as world currency. The collapse of the U.S. (definitely as a world power). Because the dollar serves as the conduit for so many international financial transactions, financial disruption will be worldwide. I think everyone can see this looming. The only countries who will do well divorce themselves from the dollar at the earliest possible time. The gold Russia and China have been accumulating for many years will serve them well.

I don't think Ukraine is a Black Swan. I think Zelensky was deliberately groomed for his current role. The Banking Cartel (which many call the Khazarian Mafia) wants and continues to steer the world to bankruptcy; famine; and war. I think the Khazarians deliberately orchestrated the Ukraine conflict. They had hoped that Kazakhstan would explode and destabilize the region enough for the initiation of a nuclear exchange from one murky group to another (better known to those of us who read as the Khazarian CIA). Unfortunately for them, the situation was brought into order too quickly.

I think they hoped for far more carnage and far less self-restraint on Russia's part in the current conflict. I think they absolutely favor a "limited" exchange of nuclear bombs. They want people worldwide totally terrified; silenced; numbed by shock; and paralyzed. By the easy manipulation of people worldwide into buying the "Russia bad; Ukraine good" narrative, they've shown the most terrifying aspect of the current situation--how many people currently cannot think, investigate, nor read for themselves through lack of education and the use of propaganda instead. They will be sheep and fodder for the Cartel. Their control of Western media has been superb. The 35% of Americans calling for the use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. against Russia would be numbed beyond their capacity to endure once they saw the utter destruction nuclear war creates.

Since Covid, we have seen deliberate disruption of international and national supply lines in addition to the simple manpower shortage (unacknowledged vaxxed deaths) so covertly, cleverly hidden from the public. Energy also has been disrupted along the same vein. Biden approaches the House of Saudi like a pauper begging for oil when he only needs to Warp Speed the XL Pipeline; open up federal lands for drilling; and stop promoting green energy as the only solution. Why does he not do so? He instills fear within the American public that they have no solutions for their problems except dealing with unfriendly foreign entities in a very uncertain world. This strategy is imposed to render the American public into a feeling of helplessness and subjugation.

This following prediction has come from many sources. The extinction of the White race. The Globalists have done well. The major countries and nations who are being decimated by the mRNA therapy are largely white, Christian, and wealthier nations. Whites will still exist but in far fewer numbers. The Khazarians hate and fear the White race because they are the one race who derives from a heritage of freedom which has been baked into their DNA. Think of the Frisians. Edward Dowd is schooling us on the significant numbers truly lost through this insane vaccination program. The castigation and segregation of whites by other races in America, black, latin, middle eastern, etc., is palatable. They have been taught well to hate and despise white people. This politically correct propaganda has riddled every Western developed nation but nowhere as near successfully as the U.S. because we have opened to every immigrant needing a home. Our current southern border is wide open. Many cities bordering this region have large (30-50%) Mexican/Central American populations. Middle Easterners (currently the Afghanis) have been resettled throughout America. Africans are welcomed with open arms; Somalians and Nigerians are everywhere.

No need to reply. Just mutterings on a Saturday night.

codis · 2022-03-20T09:09:59Z

Heosphorus

I don't think Ukraine is a Black Swan. I think Zelensky was deliberately groomed for his current role. The Banking Cartel (which many call the Khazarian Mafia) wants and continues to steer the world to bankruptcy; famine; and war. I think the Khazarians deliberately orchestrated the Ukraine conflict.

So far correct IMHO.

Here, Trump comes in (not as the savior ...). THIS war involving Russia and the Ukraine had been planned for the 2016...2020 period (I suppose 2018), with Hillary Clinton as president. That got disrupted by the Trump election, however this was achieved. And all the while the igniter (the Donbass conflict) kept on burning ...

Now the Putin administration had been watching Biden and Co. preparing this war by arming the Ukraine, aiding them to biological and nuclear weapons, and were finally ready to set the trigger with the "Ukraine into Nato" announcement.

The "Black Swan" is Putin's attack. He preempted them, fighting and deciding the war on his terms. They were not prepared for that at all, projecting their smug stupidity and overconfidence onto their adversary.

Thus their fierce and frantic "sanctions" reaction. This is pure panic - they damaging their own central banking system much more than Russia, or those countries that side with them.

I think we crossed the Rubicon towards a New World Order, but not one that the Rothschilds andtheir minions like Schwab, Gates, or Soros dreamed of.

Heosphorus · 2022-03-21T01:24:08Z

codis Ah! Got it! I agree and well done. As I said above, I don't think they expected the constraint Putin has exercised. I agree that the most accelerated unraveling is occurring within the U.S. through all systems--financial, energy, etc. I hope your concluding sentence is correct.

codis · 2022-03-21T06:18:15Z

Heosphorus I hope so, too.

It seems the Russian goverment and central bank played along for years, to avoid or at least postpone an open conflict. Now the masks are off, and if a conflict is unavoidable, better do it on your terms ...

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