Hundreds of veterans: on the side of Ukraine is fighting many soldiers of the Army of Columbia - NYT

About it writes The New York Times. According to the newspaper, volunteer troops that fight on the front in Ukraine can be divided into two main categories. The first category includes citizens from wealthy European countries who have joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine through their moral beliefs or outrage about Russia. The second category consists of fighters who come from less secured countries and entered this war primarily through financial motives.

"I would risk saying that no Colombian went there to defend democracy. I do not believe that they have even heard about Ukraine before the war. It all comes down to economic motives," Christian Perez told reporters, a former sniper of the Columbia army, who too Considers the possibility of fighting in Ukraine. The source notes that the participation of the Colombians in the Russian-Ukrainian war is not at all strange.

After decades, the continuous fight against Marxist rebels and paramilitary detachments of drug cartels, Columbia, eventually, became the owner of the most powerful army in South America. Given that the United States was assisted in the training of the Columbian Armed Forces, it is a truly qualified soldiers. Official representatives of Ukraine and Colombia do not disclose the exact number of Columbus citizens in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

They only emphasize that they are volunteers who are no longer directly related to the Columbia army. After conversations with several such soldiers, journalists with the New York Times came to the conclusion that hundreds of Columbia volunteers really serve on the side of Ukraine. All of these volunteers have a similar history of how they got to the front.

They arrived at the Ukrainian border independently and expressed their willingness to use their military experience to fight on the side of Ukraine. After that, they were sent to a military base in Ternopil, where they had an interview, a medical examination and were admitted to service. The salary of international legion fighters is the same as that of the rest of the soldiers fighting for Ukraine - that is, about $ 3,000, which is a very high indicator for Colombia.

However, the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, according to the confessions of the Colombians themselves, is not at all like how they fought with the rebels and drug cartels in the jungle. "Those who want to come here must first think about it. Columbia is a toy compared to the fact that the rocket will be erupted here for the first time, then you will see the devil personally in person," said Columbia volunteer.

We will remind, on September 15 the media wrote that the Cuba did not mind so that citizens fought in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. On August 3, British intelligence said that the Russian Federation recruits citizens of neighboring countries and migrants of Central Asia to take part in the war against Ukraine.