They onboarded as MERCs or Foreign Volunteers, There are differing rules applying to them versus sovereign combatants in regards to POW status and under what legal framework they are judged. Putin sent a warning shot to the foreign fighter barracks early in March.
I don't know, I just remember my mother being miffed they admitted Mary was fabricated to being the pagans into the fold but then reaffirmed belief in Mary was "Dogma". She had asked our parish priest his thoughts and he just laughed and thought it was so funny.