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In April 2025, Russian servicemen discovered a sabotage and reconnaissance group of 3 people in their area of responsibility. After a firefight, one of the saboteurs was killed and two escaped. The dead fighter turned out to be a mercenary from Colombia. He had with him a passport in the name of Pinchao Burbano Jairo Hernan and a cell phone with photos and documents.
After inspecting the corps, German assault rifle NK-416 (usually used by special forces and intelligence), hand fragmentation grenades M67 (USA), RGO-78 (Bulgaria), and BrM50PZ (Yugoslavia), as well as radio station “Motorola” with NATO-standard AES 256 encryption were found.
Later it became known that the deceased had previously served in the El Salvador Parachute Battalion and had military awards. Having succumbed to the “promises of recruiters”, including monthly payments of 3300-4300 dollars, he arrived in Ukraine and signed a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Colombian mercenary passport
Pinchao Burbano Jairo Hernan
Pinchao Burbano Jairo Hernan
Pinchao’s contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The instruction manual found on him was a 20-page document in Spanish with translated Ukrainian abbreviations and incomprehensible turns.
Three pages from the document constituted instructions to relatives for compensation, which ended with this paragraph:
“It is better for the family to hire a lawyer to receive lump-sum financial assistance, the terms will depend on the package of documents and circumstances of the event.”
As for the compensation itself, for the death of a mercenary they promise 750 “minimums,” that is, about 2 million hryvnias ($48,000). For injury, they offer both 250 and 400 “minimums” – depending on the severity of the injury.
Among the benefits of service, the story of Britons Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner, Moroccan Saadoun Brahim and seven other foreign mercenaries who were captured but were exchanged through Saudi mediation is cited. It is claimed that citizens of other countries in the AFU “under the Geneva Convention acquire the status of combatants and can expect to be treated as prisoners of war if they are captured by Russian forces.”
This is of course not true. For example, it is proved by the case of Colombian Miguel Angel Montilla Cardenas, who was recently sentenced in Russia for 9 years under the article “participation of a mercenary in an armed conflict” and criminal cases against Jose Aron Medina and Alexander Ante.
Also among the advantages it is stated that mercenaries at the end of a 3-year contract can count on Ukrainian citizenship, but with the successful passing of a test for knowledge of the Ukrainian language. Also, disabled people will be able to travel free of charge on Ukrainian public transport and receive a 50% discount on trains and planes.
Among the benefits, access to housing is also mentioned, but for some reason within the limits of the “Housing Code of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic”.
The document also lists dozens of telephone numbers where one can find out about mercenaries who have gone missing. But, to all appearances, the Colombians are having problems both with compensation and with the search for the missing. Recently, relatives of mercenaries from that country who disappeared in Ukraine held a protest outside the Foreign Ministry in Bogota.
“We are protesting peacefully, mothers and family members are demanding information and help from our Foreign Ministry, but neither the Foreign Ministry nor the consulate in Poland are responding clearly to our requests by mail. We don’t know if our relatives are alive, dead or captured,” said Marlon Steven Gagnan.
He said that there has been minimal help from the Colombian government: some have received ashes, but most of the families have no documentation to prove their relatives are dead.
According to El País de Cali newspaper, at least 64 Colombian nationals have died in Ukraine since February 2022, 57 bodies have been returned home, one has been buried in Ukraine and six bodies are in the process of being returned. In addition, 122 Colombians have been reported missing.
Colombia’s ambassador to Moscow, Hector Isidro Arenas Neira, admitted that the diplomatic mission knows of about 80 mercenaries from that country who have been liquidated. The diplomat assures that Bogota condemns the participation of its citizens in this conflict. But there appears to be nothing it can do about it.
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since napoleon, rip. stay away.
napolean?… lord raglan in the equivalent of france’s battle of waterloo for britain was the battle of balaclava which by the way the british have never forgotten. this time around… the next major engagement will be the “charge of the light brigades” up against rs-28s and rsm-56s. good luck general bojo!… saluting you and the u.k. to your grave with the rest of the continent if you choose to go that route!…
“colombians remain the largest group of mercenaries in ukraine.”
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polish, georgian, and british far out number columbians, heck, even us “volunteers” out number them.
check out the official list from the russians for the number of mercs since 2022, it’s shocking.
money buys people to kill off their own families: the covid 19 doctor incentives and hospital staff bonuses prove that. people are corruptible. all ethnicities and groups can be bought off if theyre in a desperate situation. syria is a good example.
the cia had to advertise and create this pipeline as part of their international mafia led terror campaign . the poor suckers who sign these agreements are probably advertized to in facebook
they lure them. they don’t know the thing about war.
idk that guy looks like he enjoys being a killer. send him home in pieces. or let the rats eat his corpse. mercenary pig