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evacuation group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces kicked an unexploded shell
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/europe/ukraine-execution-russian-prisoner-intl/index.html
Video appears to show execution of Russian prisoner by Ukrainian forces
April 8, 2022
CNN has geolocated a recent video that appears to show the execution of a Russian prisoner by Ukrainian forces following recent fighting in the Kyiv region.
The video – first verified by the New York Times – shows a group of soldiers with Ukrainian patches and blue arm bands on a road following a firefight. The bodies of at least four men in Russian uniform are lying on the pavement. Three of them have head wounds and blood is pooled around the body of a fourth, who has a jacket pulled over his head and seems to be rasping.
“He’s still alive,” says one man, in Russian. “He’s gasping.”
A soldier points a rifle and fires two shots at the body, pauses, then fires another. The body stops moving.
A person narrating to the camera then turns to film a Russian infantry fighting vehicle with a “V” marking similar to that seen on Russian military hardware operated by many units in Ukraine. “A little trophy,” the man says.
Someone off camera says, “Slava Ukrayini!” – glory to Ukraine, a patriotic greeting, and a bearded man steps in the frame and replies, “Glory the heroes,” the standard reply.
https://t.me/voenacher/14106
April 6, 2022
A video posted online on Monday and verified by The New York Times appears to show a group of Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian troops outside a village west of Kyiv.
“He’s still alive. Film these marauders. Look, he’s still alive. He’s gasping,” a man says as a Russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded, is seen still breathing. A soldier then shoots the man twice. After the man keeps moving, the soldier shoots him again, and he stops.
At least three other apparent Russian soldiers, including one with an obvious head wound who has his hands tied behind his back, can be seen dead near the victim. All are wearing camouflage, and three have white arm bands commonly worn by Russian troops. Equipment is scattered around them and there are blood stains near each man’s head.
The soldiers are lying in the road a few feet from a BMD-2, an infantry fighting vehicle used by Russian airborne units. Some appear to have had their jackets, shoes or helmets removed. Farther up the road, other destroyed vehicles can be seen.
The video was filmed on a road just north of the village of Dmytrivka, around seven miles southwest of Bucha, where the discovery of hundreds of corpses of people in civilian clothes in recent days has prompted accusations that Russian troops killed civilians as they retreated.
The killings appear to have been the result of a Ukrainian ambush of a Russian column that occurred on or around March 30, as Russian troops were withdrawing from small towns west of Kyiv that have been the scene of fierce fighting for weeks. Oz Katerji, a freelance journalist, posted videos and pictures of the destroyed column on Twitter on April 2 and wrote that soldiers told him that the Russians had been ambushed 48 hours earlier.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry also tweeted about the destruction of the Russian convoy, calling it “precise work” by Ukrainian forces. “These are not even humans,” a Ukrainian soldier says in the video as he walks among the wrecked vehicles, adding that two Russian lieutenants had been taken prisoner.
The Ukrainian soldiers are identifiable by their flag patches and blue arm bands and repeat “glory to Ukraine” multiple times. Their unit is unclear, but in the video of the killing, one of the men refers to some of them as “Belgravia lads,” likely referring to a housing development called Belgravia located a few hundred yards from the incident.
A Ukrainian news agency that posted a video of the aftermath of the ambush on March 30 described it as the work of the “Georgian Legion,” a paramilitary unit of Georgian volunteers that formed to fight on behalf of Ukraine in 2014.
>the “Georgian Legion,” a paramilitary unit of Georgian volunteers that formed to fight on behalf of Ukraine in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Legion_(Ukraine)
Georgia's former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili accused the National Movement opposition party of inciting the 2008 war in South Ossetia, highlighting the country will find the strength to apologize for the "bloody conflict" while seeking to restore trust and unity between the two nations. The pro-Western opposition party was founded by Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's ex-president who served from 2004 to 2013. The former leader sent troops into the breakaway region of Ossetia in August 2008, shelling a Russian base that had been used by peacekeepers since 1990, essentially igniting a war on the territory.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/russian-ukraine-invasion-foreign-fighters-battalion/
Foreign Fighters Are Rushing to Join Ukraine’s New International Battalion
February 28, 2022
The Georgian National Legion has previously operated as a frontline unit in the fighting in Donbas.
In recent years Ukrainian authorities have been stepping up efforts to screen those coming to take up arms, amid concerns about right-wing extremists being drawn to the conflict, following major embarrassments. Chief among them was former US soldier Craig Lang, who was attached to the Georgian National Legion for a short time after serving with the far-right unit Right Sector. He has been charged with killing a Florida couple during a visit home in 2018, and is reportedly being investigated by the US Department of Justice for war crimes in Donbas, according to BuzzFeed News.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/craig-lang-ukraine-war-crimes-alleged
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/georgia-accuses-ex-officials-plotting-murder-ruling-party-chairman-2024-07-24/
TBILISI, July 24 (Reuters) - Georgia's state security service said on Wednesday it was investigating a plot to assassinate former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, the honorary chairman of the governing party.
The State Security Service said in a post on Facebook that it was looking into what it said were criminal activities intended to "violently overthrow" the government and create unrest.
It said these included a plan to murder Ivanishvili, the country's richest man who founded the governing Georgian Dream party and was prime minister from October 2012 to November 2013.
The 68-year-old billionaire, who made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s, returned to the public stage this spring as a strong supporter of a bill on "foreign agents".
The bill, which requires organisations that receive over 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "agents of foreign influence", prompted mass protests in the capital Tbilisi and threw the South Caucasus country into political chaos.
>what dirt does he have on people to get away with a dog fighting ring?
>US soldier Craig Lang, who was attached to the Georgian National Legion for a short time after serving with the far-right unit Right Sector
https://nypost.com/2024/06/03/us-news/us-soldier-of-fortune-charged-in-multistate-crime-spree-after-extradition-from-ukraine-feds/
US ‘soldier of fortune’ charged in Florida double-murder after extradition from Ukraine
June 3, 2024
A US Army vet turned soldier of fortune is being charged with murder and fraud in a three-state crime spree after being extradited from Ukraine by the FBI, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
Craig Austin Lang, 34, who fought as a mercenary in Venezuela, Africa and Ukraine, made his first appearance in federal court on charges that he and his cohorts allegedly pulled off a double murder in Florida and falsified passports in Arizona and North Carolina before fleeing overseas, federal prosecutors said.
“Lang’s alleged conduct is shocking in its scope and its callous disregard for human life,” Nicole Argentieri, principal deputy assistant of the Department of Justice criminal division, said in a statement.
“His wrongdoing, however, was no match for the efforts of dedicated law enforcement personnel and prosecutors in the United States and abroad,” Argentieri said.
Prosecutors allege that in April 2018 Lang and fellow army vet Alex Jared Zwiefelhofer posted an online ad to sell a cache of weapons — but killed the couple who responded to the ad and stole the $3,000 they had for the purchase.
Zwiefelhofer, 27, told investigators he met Lang in Ukraine in 2017 while both were fighting Russian separatists — and planned to use the stolen money to travel to Venezuela to fight against the country’s controversial regime, according to prosecutors.
Zwiefelhofer was convicted by a federal jury in Florida in March and is due to be sentenced on Aug. 6.
In September 2018, Lang and another cohort allegedly cut a deal with two others in North Carolina to use their identities to falsify US passports, paying them off with $1,500 in cash and a suitcase “containing multiple firearms” and a military-grade smoke grenade, the feds said.
Then, in June 2019, prosecutors said Lang used a US passport to get his hands on a Mexican visa, which violates the conditions of possessing a US passport.
Lang was detained in Ukraine and was extradited back to the US after the European Court of Human Rights rejected his human rights appeal. He was brought back under FBI guard.
Lang faces life in prison if convicted of the Florida murders and up to 35 years behind bars if he is convicted of the North Carolina and Arizona charges, the Justice Department said.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-soldier-turned-foreign-fighter-extradited-ukraine-united-states-2018-double
Former U.S. Soldier Turned Foreign Fighter Extradited from Ukraine to the United States for 2018 Double Homicide, Armed Robbery, Immigration Document Offenses, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Other Charges
Monday, June 3, 2024
https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-army-vet-charged-florida-double-murder-remains/story?id=83066233
Craig Lang is shown during an interview with ABC News.
>the current occupant of the White House shouldn’t be there
^(?!(Anonymous$))
works like a charm
look at the panic
all this for a larp
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/nyregion/lisa-zornberg-resigns-eric-adams-counsel.html
Chief Counsel to Eric Adams Resigns Amid Federal Investigations
The stunning departure of Lisa Zornberg, the chief counsel to Mayor Eric Adams of New York, was announced late Saturday as federal investigations into his administration expand.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/14/us-news/nycs-chief-legal-counsel-lisa-zornberg-steps-down-from-adams-office-week-after-fbi-raids-homes-of-mayors-top-aides/
NYC’s chief legal counsel Lisa Zornberg steps down from Adams’ office week after FBI raids homes of mayor’s top aides
her dad is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift, is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive
panic is off the charts
momma said there'd be days like this
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/us/monica-witt-iran.html
Monica E. Witt, a former United States Air Force intelligence specialist, made her way through the gleaming doors and majestic lobby of one of Tehran’s largest luxury hotels in 2013, on her way to a conference that was all about bashing American culture.
There, in a crowd filled with fringe academics, Holocaust deniers and the lover of the terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, Ms. Witt at last found herself among people as critical of her country as she was.
“What she said was she had been involved in horrific war crimes with the Air Force,” said Kevin Barrett, a controversial scholar of Islam who had an extensive conversation with Ms. Witt in the gilded lobby of the Parsian Azadi hotel. “And she just felt really bad about it.”
Less than seven months after the Tehran conference, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, Ms. Witt defected and became a spy for the Iranian security service. It was the climax of a radicalization that was rooted in Ms. Witt’s military service and that accelerated while she was in graduate school. The F.B.I., around the time Ms. Witt earned her graduate degree, alerted her that Iran’s intelligence service had its eye on her.
there are no shills on 8kun
are we having a war or what