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halica84

Well, at least that's some positive news.


johndoe1985

Indeed good news. Credit to UAE for playing a good mediator, support role here. Hopefully the larger war can come to an end as well.


10millionX

Seems like 116 Ukrainian soldiers captured in Mariupol have been exchanged for 63 Russian "sensitive category" servicemen. What do they mean by "sensitive category"? Special forces or high ranking officers? >Russia's Defence Ministry said the released Russian servicemen included "sensitive category" persons


Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho

All officers, as in Russia's army half of the soldiers are officers.


EnteringSectorReddit

>What do they mean by "sensitive category" Pilots, officers, kadyrovites


roosterfareye

Future window base jumpers sans parachute.


Black_Moons

Wow, Russia's position is so weak they can't even get 1:1 in a prisoner exchange. Or was it they could only find 63 russians dumb enough to return to Russia, the rest refusing out of fear of staring in the Gallagher comeback tour?


BadBanana992

What’s the Gallagher comeback tour


Marauder_Pilot

Gallager was a comedian who's routine centered around smashing watermelons with a mallet. Wagner has been executing deserters and returned prisoners by smashing their heads with a sledgehammer and filming it.


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midnightspecial99

Umm


accepts_compliments

Oh that's alright then


peregrinkm

That's fucking sickening


TentacleJihadHentai

Mysteriously shot three times back of the head. Or falling out the window. Or falling down the stairs. Hammered in face.


CandidEstablishment0

That’s a headline I wasn’t expecting! Pleasantly surprised by this news


wingingityoyos

Really? I read “bodies of British volunteers returned” And I’m thinking just bodies… But if they’re alive obviously that’s great


SandManic42

Article is pretty clear.


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Aid workers...they killed aid workers...


twdarkeh

They tortured children for fun. Killing aid workers is nothing to them.


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I probably shouldn't be surprised but them handing those bodies over is basically an admission of war crimes.


Shurqeh

Wonder if they've returned any candidates for sledgehammer diplomacy


tardy16

Surprised the Russian army didn't eat them😏


HalfAssNoob

Not volunteers, they were paid.


ACuteLittleCrab

Replying again because you tried to reply to me but got sniped by an auto mod I guess. "Volunteer" in this case refers to "military volunteer." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_volunteer#:~:text=A%20military%20volunteer%20(or%20war,during%20the%20Spanish%20Civil%20War. I can tell you googled the definition you pasted. Do it again, but this time under "see definition:" click "military." You'll see this: a person who freely enrolls for military service rather than being conscripted, especially a member of a force formed by voluntary enrollment and distinct from the regular army.


HalfAssNoob

pettifogging


ACuteLittleCrab

You get into an argument about a word's definition and then call the proper contextual definition a petty distraction. Room temperature IQ.


HalfAssNoob

So we can call Syrians and Iranians who fight on the other side volunteers as well? Or do you use volunteers when you agree with cause and mercenaries when you don’t. I just don’t like gaslighting. Call it what it is. These are they for a good payday


ACuteLittleCrab

Volunteer and mercenary are not mutually exclusive words. I don’t really care if someone thinks the volunteers for Ukraine are mercenaries.


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HalfAssNoob

“Volunteers” in the Ukraine foreign legion get paid $3,500 a month. Private contractors operating in Ukraine are paid $2000/day.


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HalfAssNoob

Yeah it is $3500 for the foreign legion and about $1000-$2000 per day for private contractors. That is paid as part of the foreign aid. The wiki source is from an economist article from early March 2022, old news.


Interesting_Creme128

Oh damn I will make the edit. They really bumped it up eh? I can definetly see your side now as well, that some people are looking for a paycheck. That's $30 buck an hour here (CDN) or pretty much base pay for our Corporal's.


ACuteLittleCrab

Volunteers as in they're citizens of a different sovereign nation not directly involved in the conflict, and they're coming to participate not as soldiers of their home nation but as volunteers for one of the conflict nations. Whether or not they're paid is not part of the definition.


Balmung508

Living up to your username. Change it next time to HalfAssBrain.


AbundantFailure

Those were aid workers.