Is there a Russian equivalent of Steve Urkel?
Posted on 08/26/2014 5:27:06 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces entered Ukraine by mistake, a Defense Ministry source has told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
“The soldiers were patrolling the Russian-Ukrainian border when they most likely crossed accidentally at an unequipped and unmarked checkpoint,” said the unnamed source.
On the evening on Aug. 25, the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, said it had captured 10 Russian soldiers in the village of Dzerkalny, Donetsk Oblast, roughly 14 kilometers from the Russian border in a statement on its website.
The capture of the Russian soldiers comes at a time when border tensions between Ukraine and Russia are already high after Russia sent a humanitarian convoy into eastern Ukraine without Ukrainian authorities’ approval. Ukraine said it considered such convoys to be a violation of its sovereignty and international law while Russia announced it will send another convoy as early as this week.
In the statement released by the SBU Ukrainian authorities also provided links to videos said to be interviews with the captured Russian soldiers.
In one of the videos, a man who identifies himself as Ivan Romantsev, deputy commander of a Russian military vehicle, said he had been training near the southern Russian city of Rostov before beginning what he was told were military exercises.
“My vehicle was hit at and blown up,” he said. “Then I understood it was not just a military exercise and I got scared. Now I understand we were sent to fight people we shouldn’t have been fighting.”
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Oh sure.
And right now, there are a couple hundred thousand people who entered the US by ‘mistake’. :)
I might buy the “mistake” excuse if the soldiers were picked up within a hundred yards of the border or so. However, they were captured in a Ukrainian village 14 km inside the border. For the metrically challenged, that’s about 9 miles inside Ukraine! Are they seriously trying to tell us that they made it 9 miles inside the border without realizing that they had crossed? I find that hard to swallow.
The excuse was not made to sway thinking people. Vlad doesn’t care about thinking people because they are in such a minority, it almost doesn’t matter.
The announcements are for the low information types as well as Freeperdom’s Putinistas.
Also, take a look at there assortment of uniforms without distinctive Russian insignia as required by the Laws of War. If they were legitimate Russian soldiers who lost their way, they would be required to be properly uniformed in distinctive Russia Ground Forces and airborne brigade insignia, and their armored fighting vehicles and other vehicles would not have had their Russian identification marks and insignia painted over.
LOL
Great point.
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