Putin agreed to allow 16,000 foreign volunteers, mainly from the Middle East, to go to Ukraine to fight ukrainians and Western volunteers. The news was so sudden, so shocking! I never expected that Russia would follow the example of Ukraine and invest more than 16,000 foreign volunteers to fight in Ukraine, at that time, there will be more than 16,000 Western volunteers from Ukraine and more than 16,000 Middle Eastern volunteers from Russia fighting each other.
Russian Satellite News Agency reported on March 11 that Russian Defense Minister Shoigu said at a meeting of the Russian Federation Security Conference held on the same day that Russia received a large number of applications from volunteers from many countries who wanted to come to the liberation movement of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and the "Luhansk People's Republic". The largest number of applicants from Middle Eastern countries is more than 16,000, many of whom have been helping to fight the Islamic State for the last 10 years.
Shoigu believes that these personnel applied to fight in Donbass not for money, but rather to show a sincere desire, so Russia was right to respond positively to their application.
After listening to the returns from Shoigu, Putin agreed to an application from the Middle East for more than 16,000 nominal brave soldiers from the Middle East to join the war in Ukraine. Putin said at the meeting of the Russian Federation Security Conference held on the 11th: "If you see someone who wants to volunteer, let alone not for money, to help people living in the Donbass region, you should welcome them and help them reach the war zone." ”
A few days ago, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said on March 3 that the first batch of 16,000 foreign volunteers and volunteers had arrived in Ukraine and would fight with Ukrainian government forces to resist the Russian army. According to foreign media reports, these foreign volunteers and volunteers are mainly from the United States, Britain, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Norway and other Western countries, many of whom are retired soldiers, and some of them have participated in the Iraq War and the Afghan War and have rich combat experience. As the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict continued, more and more Western volunteers and volunteers came to Ukraine to participate in the war, far more than 16,000 people.
On the one hand, the combat experience of these Western volunteers is richer than that of Ukrainian soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is stronger; on the other hand, the disadvantage of insufficient Russian military personnel on the Ukrainian battlefield is more obvious in the case of tens of thousands of Western volunteers participating in the war, however, Russia stipulates that only contract soldiers can fight wars, and conscripts are not allowed to participate in the war.
In order to make up for the shortage of troops, Russia decided to "attack drugs with poison", followed the example of Ukraine, and also invested foreign volunteers to participate in the war, so there were more than 16,000 foreign volunteers mainly from the Middle East who applied to join the war in Ukraine.
More than 16,000 foreign volunteers, mainly from the Middle East, are actually from Syria, presumably: Syrian militias supported and controlled by Syrian government forces, Lebanese Allah party forces, Afghan Shiite militias created by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, Palestinian militias, and possibly even Iraqi Shiite militias supported by iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force. The above-mentioned militia organizations and armed forces have long cooperated with the Syrian government army and the Russian army in the Syrian battlefield to fight against various extremist organizations and terrorist organizations supported by the West, Turkey and Arab countries (in the early stage), and have accumulated rich combat experience.
Perhaps, it will not be long before we will see the news of the death of volunteers from the West and the volunteers from Syria on the battlefield in Ukraine, as Russia and Ukraine use foreign volunteers to fight, and there are more and more foreign volunteer soldiers on both sides, the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine may become more fierce, last longer and longer, and may even be warlike in Syria - while fighting, talking while negotiating a temporary ceasefire, talking about it and then fighting, and so on.
