Dead Americans showing up in Ukraine

Editor's note: The biggest question is why are Americans in Ukraine killing Russians, or at least trying to? This is the primary issue. What if this were turned around and Americans were fighting for the Russians? Several cases have been reported of ex-military members from the US fighting with the Russians killing Ukrainians. What do mercenaries from the US think when they go to Ukraine? Where are they getting their information from on their decision? It is probably correct to suggest NATO soldiers are in Ukraine fighting against Russia but serve as "volunteers." Then once they return to their respective countries like Poland for example, they return to regular military duty in the Polish military. How many American mercenaries fighting in Ukraine who are there now and who have been killed went to Ukraine thinking they are fighting for "democracy" and "Ukraine's freedom?" The number of foreign mercenaries killed in Ukraine is estimated at more than 6,500 with most mercenaries not too particularly keen on dying for Ukraine. 

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American fighters are dying in Ukraine in growing numbers. Bringing their bodies home is a complex task

By CNN | January 30, 2025

Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) Editor's Note: This report contains details of death and injury that some may find distressing.

More than 20 Americans are missing in action on the front lines in Ukraine, with a spike in casualties over the past six months as foreigners fill urgent gaps in the country's embattled defenses, according to a CNN investigation.

The bodies of at least five American volunteers who signed up to the Ukrainian military could not be retrieved from the battlefield after being killed in action in the past six months, CNN found. Two of these were repatriated from Russian-occupied territory on Friday to Ukrainian soil after lengthy negotiations.

The stark testimony of their surviving colleagues, and the growing toll, portrays the obscure yet important role of American frontline fighters in a war President Donald Trump has called "ridiculous" and has pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin to end diplomatically.

The relatives of the missing Americans have told CNN of the distressing lack of closure in not being able to bury their sons, of the legal limbo of not being able to officially declare their loved ones dead, and also of the torment inflicted by Russian internet trolls who harass them online. The intensity of fighting across Ukraine's front eastern lines means the corpses of soldiers from both sides often cannot be collected and litter the battlefield.

Two American volunteers were killed in a single incident just outside Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine in late September, according to survivors and relatives. Neither's body has been recovered. Former US soldier Zachary Ford, 25, from Missouri, and another American without military experience, whose family requested to be identified only by his callsign 'Gunther,' were killed by a drone while tasked with blowing up a bridge near the village of Novohrodivka.

The surviving American, who asked to be known by his callsign 'Redneck,' described a mission with a limited chance of success, where the group of three US volunteers were swiftly trapped by Russian fire in a trench about 500 meters from their bridge target.

"Russian drones start coming down the treeline, to try to crash through the roof of the bunker," he recalled in an interview with CNN last week from the United States. A log in the roof fell and hit him in the face, he said. "I had the shotgun, I was trying to shoot these things down."

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Editor's note: CNN is an untrustworthy fake news source. The lying duplicitous bitches over at CNN are subtly blaming President Trump for the horrific air disaster at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport:

As the bodies are being fished out, CNN is subtly trying to blame the plane crash on President Trump. Sickening.

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