Advance the video to 2:36. The "soldier" replies in perfect English with and American accent. He is either a mercenary or CIA.
This is, I think, a very significant development. Americans in Ukrainian uniform fighting in Mariupol.
It seems as if Obama is heading towards direct conflict with Russia over the Ukraine. Why? What is the significant US interest in the Ukraine? It's just another bankrupt former Soviet satrap ruled by kleptocrats. If it wasn't for foreign aid they would be starving in the dark this winter. Let the Russians choke on them.
That’s some smoking gun.
Thousands of Russians are crossing into Ukraine with tanks, here they found an English-speaking guy on the Ukrainian side. There are millions of Ukr. in the US&Canadian diaspora. For the record, there was an American already killed, a middle aged investor of a Ukrainian descent, who didn’t need that kind of headache at the end of his life, but nonetheless, answered the call of his parents’ country.
There are also plenty of E. Europeans foreigners fighting on Ukr. side - Georgians, Lithuanians, Poles, etc. - you can’t call them mercenaries either if they’re acting in their nation’s interests. Yet, the Ukrainian force remains overwhelmingly Ukrainian (95%+)