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Ukrainian lawmaker Maryan Zablotsky, the head of the Free Cuba Caucus of the Verkhovna Rada, announced on Tuesday that his government was willing to free the four living Cuban mercenaries in its custody, and return the bodies of 41 others, in exchange for the communist regime liberating its own political prisoners.

The government of Ukraine confirmed on Wednesday that it is shutting down its embassy in Havana, Cuba, in response to the Communist Party offering thousands of mercenaries to Russia to participate in the ongoing invasion of its territory.

The “Africa Corps,” the revised version of the infamous Wagner Group mercenary outfit founded by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, suffered a disastrous defeat in Mali at the hands of jihadi insurgents this month.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Friday that an injured North Korean soldier, captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting for Russia in Kursk, has succumbed to his wounds.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) warned on Monday that North Korea is preparing to send more troops, drones, and missiles to Russia to support its war against Ukraine. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is particularly eager to send more “suicide drones” to his ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence agency on Saturday claimed North Korean mercenaries accidentally killed eight of their Russian partners in a “friendly fire” attack because of the “language barrier” between soldiers from the two countries.

Andrii Kovalenko of the Ukraine Security Council says Ukrainian forces have begun shelling North Korean mercenaries in Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday lashed out against the “zero” response of his Western allies to reports that thousands of North Korean mercenaries are preparing to fight on Russia’s behalf.

South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) director Cho Tae-yong told lawmakers on Wednesday that 3,000 North Korean troops are already in Russia, training and preparing for deployment against Ukraine.

South Korea said on Tuesday it is considering a set of “phased measures” in response to deepening North Korean military cooperation with Russia, possibly including weapons shipments to Ukraine.

A Russian court on Monday sentenced 72-year-old U.S. citizen Stephen James Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison for helping to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

Dozens of mercenaries from Russia’s notorious Wagner Group were reportedly killed in two separate ambushes in Mali over the weekend.

A consortium of totalitarian countries supports Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s genocidal imperialist war against Ukraine specifically and against the Free World in general. North Korea provides the artillery and missiles; China, the electronic inputs; Iran, the fearsome Shahed drones.

Ukrainian Army spokesman Capt. Ilya Yevlash said on Wednesday that about five hundred mercenaries from the infamous Wagner Group have returned to fight for Russia on the battlefield, a month after Wagner’s founders Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin were reportedly killed in a highly suspicious plane crash near Moscow.

Northern Ireland Police seized weapons from New IRA terrorists that reportedly came to the country from the frontlines in the war in Ukraine.

The communist Castro regime in Cuba announced on Monday it is working to “neutralize and dismantle” an alleged human trafficking network that recruits Cuban citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

A British man fighting for Ukraine has been killed in a Russian mortar strike, and is the ninth known UK military casualty in the war so far.

Russian officials on Monday appointed Gen. Andrey Averyanov, head of covert offensive operations for Russian military intelligence, to supervise the mercenary Wagner Group’s valuable operations in Africa following the reported death of its founders, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, in a plane crash last week.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree requiring paramilitary fighters in “volunteer formations” to swear an oath of allegiance to the Russian flag.

A Russian paramilitary group called COSI said in a Sunday post on the messaging platform Telegram that hundreds of “experienced” Wagner Group mercenaries are pouring into the Central African Republic (CAR) to “ensure security” ahead of a July 30 referendum that could give President Faustin-Archange Touadera a third term in office.

The surprising and short-lived mutiny by Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 24 brought new attention to the shadowy mercenary organization, which has been active in Africa and the Middle East for many years.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that thousands of mercenaries from the Wagner Group will remain deployed in Africa, even though Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin led a mutiny against the Russian military over the weekend and then sought refuge in Belarus with some of his forces.

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on Monday morning issued his first statement since his aborted insurrection over the weekend.

Ukrainian forces have released what they claim is video footage of a “street fight” between the State Border Guard Service and Wagner Group mercenaries in the key battleground city of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast. 

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces have made progress in their campaign to capture the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the focus of the war’s longest ground battle, but their assault will be difficult to sustain without more significant personnel losses, British military officials said Saturday.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group private military company, has suggested a “betrayal” by the Russian authorities as his men run short of ammunition on the Bakhmut front.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine believes is likely that Russia is employing “Kurdish mercenaries” to fly kamikaze drones against Ukrainian targets.

Hundreds of people turned out in Lusaka, Zambia, on Tuesday to attend the funeral of Lemekani Nyirenda, a 23-year-old engineering student recruited by Russia’s infamous Wagner Group of mercenaries and killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Russian warplanes have struck Ukrainian army positions in the southern Kherson region and in the Donetsk region. He added that the Russian air force also hit a facility in the Kharkiv region, killing at least 100 and wounding 50 “mercenaries” from the West.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The Ukrainian foreign minister says he and Britain’s defense secretary have discussed the plight of the three foreign fighters sentenced to death by pro-Russian separatists.

Hundreds of people in Brazil have allegedly expressed interest in traveling to Ukraine to help the nation’s army fight its latest war against Russia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.

A South Korean marine who recently attempted to volunteer to fight for Ukraine in its latest war against Russia was reported as “missing in action somewhere in Poland” on Wednesday, the Korea JoongAng Daily reported Thursday.

French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly expressed her government’s growing frustration with the Mali junta on Tuesday, railing that the junta’s reluctance to permit elections on schedule was jeopardizing counterterrorism efforts in the volatile region and disrespecting the sacrifices made by French soldiers.

A Syrian mercenary recently captured while fighting for Azerbaijan against Armenia in its ongoing war over Nagorno-Karabakh said on Wednesday that his recruiters instructed him and fellow mercenaries to “slaughter all civilians and soldiers” of an Armenian village they attempted to capture.

Armenian public radio published video footage on Thursday allegedly depicting an imam in Syria recruiting mercenaries to fight for Azerbaijan against Armenia in its ongoing conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.