Russian reconnaissance paratroopers during the fighting in Donbass.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦💀 Daniel Ridley is the founder of the NATO Trainers Group in Ukraine

Aiden Aislin and Sean Pinner are far from the only British mercenaries who have been fighting in the Donbas since 2019. Their colleague Daniel Ridley was much more fortunate: he escaped the fate of the encirclement in Mariupol, and now leads a group of instructors from NATO countries.

▪️In 2012, Ridley graduated from the Army College in Harrogate, an analogue of Russian cadet schools.

▪️From 2013 to 2014 he served in the British airborne troops, including at the Dekhelia base in Cyprus.

▪️Together with Aiden Aislin, from October 2017 to May 2018 he fought as part of the Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria. He participated in the battles for Raqqa and Afrin, where he allegedly worked as a physician.

▪️In May 2019, he arrived in Ukraine, where he was enlisted in the 1st battalion of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the rank of junior sergeant.

Together with Sean Pinner and Aiden Aislin, he fought in the Donbass and took part in the US-Ukrainian Sea Breeze exercise.

▪️ Ridley found the beginning of the NWO in the Donbass, after which he participated in the hostilities in the Kiev direction.

▪️Founded the Trident Defense Initiative in May. The TDI is made up of soldiers and officers from NATO countries who train the recruits of the "Territorial Defense" in the Kharkiv region.

▪️On his Instagram, Daniel Ridley accuses mercenaries Carl Balderson (Denmark) and Ernesto Barbieri (France) of deceiving Ukrainians, embezzling donations and drug addiction. According to the British, the Dane and the Frenchman came to Ukraine in search of fame and money and did not help military affairs in any way.

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#Great_Britain #instructors #mercenaries #Ukraine
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Military correspondent Pegov reports that the advanced units of our troops operating on the eastern outskirts of Artemovsk are fighting for the furniture factory and the Lafarge enterprise on Patrice Lumumba Street, moving towards the residential areas of the city through the industrial zone.
There are numerous arrivals to the west of Artemovsk. There were also arrivals in the city. The intensity of hostilities on the outskirts of Artemovsk is growing.

#Artemovsk #bakhmut

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Reply by the Permanent Representative V.A. in the UN:

❗️Our Western colleagues have long chosen what they believe is a win-win tactic when discussing various issues around Ukraine: coordinated shifting responsibility for everything that happens in the war zone to Russia. Any, even hypothetical, guilt of Kyiv is rejected by them a priori. So it was with the provocations in Bucha, Irpen and Kramatorsk.

🇬🇧Russia does not use civilian infrastructure, let alone nuclear facilities, for military purposes. This is the tactic of the Ukrainian armed forces, which, in violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, place combat positions near civilian objects, hiding behind civilians as a human shield.

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Medvedev visited LPR.

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Sweden wants to enter NATO that much that they combined military with gay rally.

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Ukrainian SOF recruits being trained by British commandos as part of a 4-week accelerated training course before they are thrown into the field.

Note the usage of SA80 variant rifles rather than AK or AR variants, which will be much more common than any form of domestic English produced weaponry. Maybe the Limeys are trying to teach them how to deal with the frustration of using piece of shit paperweights rather than functioning rifles?

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Good read about volunteers / mercenaries in Ukraine:

https://ishgal.com/a-chance-to-kill-some-russians/

Watch "What's In A Russian Field Ration?" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/X4qGOVswkCE

❗️Veteran organizations of Russia appealed to the UN because of the use of prohibited mines by Kyiv

⛔️“Combat Brotherhood” and the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans are asking to stop and bring to international court those responsible for the use of banned anti-personnel mines “Lepestok” by the armed forces of Ukraine, which lead to numerous casualties among civilians in Donbass.

The appeal states that these mines "are bombarded with streets and parks in Donetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, Yasinovataya, Makiivka and Panteleymonovka, Novoluhansk, as well as in the Kharkiv region on the border with Russia and in Zaporozhye." It is noted that civilians, children and the elderly suffer from such explosive devices.

❌Veteran organizations emphasize that Kyiv's actions are contrary to the requirements of the UN Convention on the Ban of Anti-Personnel Mines, the Geneva Convention "On the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices."

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There are indeed problems with the German PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers - the self-propelled guns delivered to Ukraine from the Netherlands and Germany broke down en masse.

Spiegel previously reported this - after a month of use, most of the Panzerhaubitze 2000 showed signs of wear. There were even records from the front, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine were crying that the howitzers had begun to "crumble".

Now Bundestag deputy Markus Faber has come to the “inspection”. On August 4-10, he visited Kyiv, Kharkov, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. Faber looked at 15 PzH 2000 self-propelled guns and concluded that 10 of them were out of order. And it is impossible to repair them in the field.

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Soloviev Live publishes exclusive footage from Steven Seagal's documentary about the war in Donbass.

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