Posted on 05/31/2022 9:06:32 AM PDT by Stingray51
.... So the claim that NATO officers were also captured is false. If any NATO officer was captured, again – you can be sure that the Russians would have paraded them on TV. ...
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Russian official sources never claimed any particular high level NATO officer being arrested and they may have reasons for not parading them even if they have them — exchange material and avoiding acknowledging the otherwise obvious fact that Russia is at war with NATO.
Having said this I have no clue as to who was captured in Mariupol.. perhaps only two Brits and a Moroccan we know of. Arrested Azov people confirmed presence of foreigners but there were no names in their interviews.
In a way similar: Russian defense ministry said that 15 foreign specialists were killed in a strike at a Nikolaev facility ~ 3 days ago. But no names or even nationalities, only some hints that they were likely Brits.
Cloutier seems unlikely to have been there. But we do know that Cadieu did volunteer and travel to Ukraine.
Part of this is the name confusion after conversion to Cyrillic and back — this is how they ended up with two different names of one person.
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