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Twenty Brazilian mercenaries fighting on the side of Ukraine have been eliminated in the zone of the special military operation, an official in Russian law enforcement told TASS on August 20.
“More foreign mercenaries killed in the special military operation zone have been identified. These are 20 Brazilian citizens who were eliminated in various sectors of the front,” he said.
According to the official, after being recruited via social networks, they came to Colombia, where they signed contracts with the Ukrainian armed forces.
The presence of Brazilian mercenaries in Ukraine has been a subject of significant scrutiny throughout the year, with various investigative reports documenting both the scale of participation and the hazardous conditions faced by these fighters.
In February, an investigation by The Kyiv Independent, in collaboration with the Brazilian television network SBT, uncovered allegations of abuse within a Brazilian-led unit known as the “Advanced Company,” which operates under Ukraine’s military intelligence.
That report detailed the death of a Brazilian recruit, Bruno Gabriel Leal da Silva, who died at a base in Kyiv following reports of harsh disciplinary treatment.
The fallout from that investigation intensified in March, when the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Press Institute reported that the unit’s commander, a Brazilian national named Leanderson Paulino, had issued direct threats against the journalists involved in the exposé.
The threats reportedly prompted an internal investigation by Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) into the commander’s conduct.
By April, national reporting by Folha de S.Paulo highlighted the increasingly complex challenges families face when attempting to confirm the status of their relatives fighting in Ukraine, detailing cases where official consular records from the Brazilian Embassy in Kyiv remained inconclusive or marked individuals as missing even as family members discovered through unofficial channels that their loved ones had been killed in active combat.
These reports have occurred against a backdrop of increasing concern from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, known as Itamaraty, which has repeatedly discouraged citizens from joining the Ukrainian armed forces.
Amid ongoing troop shortages and protracted combat losses, Ukraine has increasingly relied on foreign mercenaries to bolster its ranks, mainly within the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine.
This reliance has driven targeted recruitment initiatives across Latin America, utilizing social media campaigns and revised contract terms that appeal to individuals with prior military experience.
Among foreign contingents, personnel from Latin American nations—particularly Brazil and Colombia—have represented a notable segment of the auxiliary forces, with estimates from institutional data indicating that citizens from the region have made up a substantial portion of foreign enlistments in ground units.
This heavy deployment has resulted in a mounting human cost: official tracking from Itamaraty confirms that dozens of Brazilian mercenaries have died or gone missing in Ukraine, placing Brazil among the countries with some of the highest recorded casualties among international combatants.
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i have a sneaking suspicion that brazil is opening its prisons to the ukrainians with one way tickets, like castro did to the us.
nice way to get rid of criminals. russia should do the same
well… nothin says b-riics unity when the “b” doubles as a united nations mercenary and breaks itself off as mr. hyde from it’$ straight man dr. jeckyl?…
word of advice to the russian federation… this is why you should have shown charismatic leadership all those years ago with your unsc position after 911 demanding an independent international investigation of lower manhattan but instead saw profit for your oil in western markets and ignored what was coming in earnest by 2014. at the very least you should have vacated your seat at the un fun h0u$e after maidan in protest!
brazil is a country with inequalities, lowest income families sons go to the military, the police, or to the church. also, we live in laisez-faire so they can travel to ukraine if they want. the brazilian federal goverment should open an investigation to check that no organization or business are recruiting the “soldiers of fortune”. but all the governed collective western governments are aligned against russia, so nobody will do nothing on this issue.
mais vocês rapaces e preferível trabalho com dignidade que ir a lutar pra preservar os benefícios de quem os mantém com fome e sem educação. não adianta fazer guerra contra nossos irmãos da rússia.
what a shame—exotic fascist brazilian jizz in my americunt anuz is double incel derp
outra vez você. venha vou te encher de sêmen brasileiro até você parir um filho sul-americano.
we’re just doing this world a favor, by getting rid of roaches.
matem esses patifes brasileiros todos. são fdp bolsonaristas imundos.
lula tetra!
20 mercenários brasileiros nazistas menos! o brasil acorda mais limpo hoje🙌
the the cia globalists mankind is just meat to sacrifice at the altar of plunder. the powerful will never be happy.
20 votos menos para o filho de jair bolsonaro nas eleições de outubro🤣🤣🤣