New exchange of accusations between the two sworn enemies, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin ordered his army today to facilitate the sending of volunteers to Ukraine in response to the routing, according to him, of “mercenaries” by the West.
“If you see that people want to go voluntarily, which is not for money, and help those who live in Donbass, then you have to meet them and help them join the combat zone,” said Vladimir Putin, in response to a proposal from his Minister of Defense, Sergei Choigou.
The latter said, in fact that 16,000 fighters from the Near East were ready to help Russian forces. “Those who want to, who have asked (to leave to fight) are nationals of the Near East, of the Syrians,” said spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov.
Ukraine immediately replied: “Russia hires ‘Syrian assassins’ to ‘destroy’ Ukraine, denounced this Friday, March 11, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to the sending of Syrian mercenaries to fight alongside the Russian forces.
“It was a war with a very stubborn enemy (…) who decided to hire mercenaries against our citizens. Assassins of Syria, from a country where everything was destroyed by the occupants, as they do to us, “said Volodymyr Zelensky in a video published on Telegram.
