🇨🇴 Colombian volunteers as part of the 🇺🇦49 Carpathian Sich 🦅 93rd Brigade in the Kreminna sector.
It is claimed that these are veterans of the Colombian police commandos, which is quite likely, as Colombia is a highly militarised country.
Due to its long history of internal wars, which has led to the creation of numerous specialised military and police units, including the commandos, many Colombian veterans are taking part in the war on the side of Ukraine.
The persons in the photo have been verified:
1. PECHKAREV Aleksey Gennadyevich, commander of the Tu-95 aircraft, 121st Guards Heavy Bomber
Aviation Regiment of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's
Long-Range Aviation.
2. MARTYNOV Andrey Pavlovich, assistant navigator of the aviation squadron, 121st Guards Heavy Bomber
Aviation Regiment of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's
Long-Range Aviation.
3. GOVOROV Vladislav Sergeevich, likely head of the state secret protection service, 121st Guards Heavy
Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian
Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, captain.
4. GOLOVANOV Vyacheslav Georgievich.
5. ALUEV Aleksandr Nikolaevich, likely holds the command post of personnel management of the 22nd
Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
6. KHOKHRYAKOV Denis Petrovich, senior officer, 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the
22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
7. MYKHAILYSHIN Oleg Vladimirovych), deputy commander for work with personnel of the 22nd Guards
Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
8. AZARENKOV Aleksandr Yurievich, senior officer, 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the
Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
9. BARANOV Oleg Yurievich, senior navigator of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the
Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
10. BURDAKOV Pavel Vladimirovych, Tu-160 aircraft commander, 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation
Regiment of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-
Range Aviation.
11. TATUR Vladimir Bronislavovich.
12. DOLGUSHYN Sergey Vladimirovych, senior officer of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of
the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
13. PAPIKYAN Nikolay Lukashevich, deputy chief of staff of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation
Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, lieutenant colonel.
14. KORYAKIN Ilya Vladimirovych, chief of staff of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the
Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, colonel.
15. SMIRNOV Maksim Vladislavovich, senior officer, 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the
Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, lieutenant colonel.
16. KASHLEV Aleksandr Sergeevich, senior officer, 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the
Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, lieutenant colonel.
17. BELOKOBILSKY Konstantin Petrovich.
18. STRUCHKOV Stanislav Dmitrievich.
19. TSIBIZOV Aleksey Sergeevich, senior officer, 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 22nd
Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
20. MALYUKOV Andrey Ivanovich, likely head of the meteorological service of the 22nd Guards Heavy
Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation.
21. STEPANENKO Dmitriy Viktorovich, deputy chief of staff of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation
Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, lieutenant colonel.
22. SOLOVYOV Ruslan Arslanovich, senior officer, 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the
Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, lieutenant colonel.
23. ZYKOV Zykov Vitaliy Evgenyevich, senior officer, 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the
Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant colonel.
24. POKATISOV Aleksandr Sergeevich.
25. MALININ Vladislav Viktorovych, senior navigator, 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the
22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation,
lieutenant colonel.
26. SKITSKY Oleg Igorevich, commander of the 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 22nd
Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Rus
25. MALININ Vladislav Viktorovych, senior navigator, 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the
22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation,
lieutenant colonel.
26. SKITSKY Oleg Igorevich, commander of the 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 22nd
Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, colonel.
27. TETEREV Sergey Viktorovich, senior officer, 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian
Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, major.
28. VARPAHOVYCH Nikolay Nikolayevich, commander of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of
the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, colonel.
29. KAPSHA Trofim Aleksandrovych, deputy commander of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation
Division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, colonel.
30. GORLOV Vladimir Aleksandrovich, senior officer of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of
the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation, major.
🇺🇸🇩🇪 The USA and Germany foiled a Russian plot to kill the CEO of Rheinmetall, who is sending weapons to Ukraine, CNN writes .
This potential assassination attempt was one of a series of Russian plans to assassinate defense industry executives across Europe who supported Ukraine's war effort.😧
"When the Americans learned of this effort, they informed Germany, whose security services were then able to protect Papperger and foil the plan."
- the material says.
The plan to kill Armin Papperger, "a white-haired goliath" who has led the German manufacturing charge in support of Kyiv, was the most mature.
For more than six months, Russia has been carrying out a sabotage campaign across Europe, largely by proxy. It has recruited local amateurs for everything from arson attacks on warehouses linked to arms for Ukraine to petty acts of vandalism — all designed to stymie the flow of weapons from the West to Ukraine and blunt public support for Kyiv. But the intelligence suggesting that Russia was willing to assassinate private citizens underlined to Western officials just how far Moscow was willing to go in a parallel shadow war it is waging across the west.
The series of plots, not previously reported, helps explain the increasingly strident warnings from NATO officials about the seriousness of the sabotage campaign — one that some senior officials believe risks crossing the threshold into armed conflict in eastern Europe.
“We’re seeing sabotage, we’re seeing assassination plots, we’re seeing arson. We’re seeing things that have a cost in human lives,” a senior NATO official told reporters on Tuesday. “I believe very much that we’re seeing a campaign of covert sabotage activities from Russia that have strategic consequences.”
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The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.