Moscow, December 13 (EFE). – The Russian army says it has liquidated a unit of Colombian mercenaries during fighting in the Ukrainian border region of Kharkiv, where Russia is trying to establish a security strip, Russian security force sources reported this Saturday.
The Colombians were killed by the troops of the Russian military group Sever (North) as part of the Russian offensive in the city of Vovchansk, the source told the TASS agency.
He states that the Ukrainians buried the mercenaries after they were identified because no one claimed them in their home country. Among those buried, combatants with the code names “Taison” and “Avanturero” are mentioned.
Moscow accuses Kiev of using foreign mercenaries as “cannon fodder” to defend its positions at all costs against the Russian offensive in all sectors of the more than a thousand kilometer long front.
In recent years, the Russian judiciary has handed out long sentences to mercenaries both in absentia and captured, including Colombian Pablo Puentes Borges, who was sentenced to 28 years in prison in June for fighting with Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region.
Both Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of using Latin American, African, Indian and Chinese mercenaries, among others, as attack units in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the city of Kupiansk (Kharkov) this week to demonstrate that the city has not yet been taken by the enemy, as Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin claims. EFE
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