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Russia said on September 14 that a British soldier recently reported dead in Ukraine was killed while fighting for Ukrainian forces, contradicting the British government’s account that the service member died in a road accident.
The Russian claim was reported by state news agency TASS, which cited sources in the Russian Defense Ministry. It came hours after Britain’s Ministry of Defence confirmed the death of a British serviceman in Ukraine following what it described as a “tragic incident.”
TASS reported that Russian forces had “eliminated a British soldier fighting for Ukraine in the special military operation zone.”
The Russian Defense Ministry sources also addressed the British announcement directly, saying in a statement quoted by the news agency: “The UK Ministry of Defense has reported the death of one of its servicemen in Ukraine as a result of a ‘tragic incident.’”
“This is not the first case of a British soldier dying on the territory of the ‘independent’ state,” the statement continued.
The Russian account then listed a number of other Ukrainian military personnel it said had been killed along with the British soldier.
“On one of the fronts of the special military operation, 23-year-old Senior Lieutenant [NSU] Bik Nazara was killed. In the DPR [the Donetsk People’s Republic], Senior Lieutenant Taras Ivanovich Gnatyuk was killed.”
“The death of Junior Lieutenant Ivan Kushkevich, commander of an engineering platoon of the 703rd Support Brigade, has been confirmed,” the statement added.
TASS did not identify the British serviceman by name or provide details of where or how exactly he was killed by the Russian military.
The British government has not said that the serviceman was killed in combat. The death was described in British reporting as the result of a road crash in Ukraine, with the Ministry of Defence notifying the soldier’s family.
The incident is the second confirmed death of a British soldier in Ukraine. LCpl George Hooley, a paratrooper, was killed in December while watching a test of a new Ukrainian drone.
The Ministry of Defence also claimed at the time that the 28-year-old died in an accident away from the front line and that he was not involved in any combat operations in Ukraine.
The recent deaths point to growing British military support to Ukraine. Russia has warned more than once that it will target any foreign troops in the country.
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jingoism, for some, there is no cure.
might as well raise the question on the cia director’s “unannounced visit” to moscow a couple of weeks ago, with a refrigerator truck that doubled as a c-17 aircraft?… was mr. ratcliffe taking back “tomb of the unknown(s)” as part of the reason for his visit?… and if that is the case… why would the russian federation dignify any of those p0$ who fought and died illegally as guns for hire in the destruction and white genocide of it’s eastern ukraine family???…
if russia is going to remain in the un “club”h0u$e it might want to mention the geneva convention(s) when illegal wars are waged against their country, including the reason why they ultimately declared war against ukraine after bio weapons labs driven by nato were ultimately being built and used to kill russians ???…
the club house at the un is mostly captured. but can not sustain
agree. so why does russia remain in it at it’s expense?
jaw jaw better than war war, unless you’re a neocon or a europeon wannabe.
no difference between eastern zi0ni$t or western zi0ni$ts. they hate the christians the most. north america is a lost cause. but i had hoped that russia would be a much bigger lawn care administrator to the “wandering weed problem” in their own backyard after what has happened to them in the last 12 years alone.
so if what you just said is true. couldn’t russia have expedited the briics by tendering it’s seat at the un after maidan and announced that the “real un” would be opening for business within a year in moscow??? hindsight being what it is… i guess we will never know how many remaining members would have strayed to the rebuilding of that organization and how quickly it might have ended the conflict in ukraine as a result?….
sir humphrey appleby:
yes, and current policy. we had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside. we tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn’t work. now that we’re inside we can make a complete pig’s breakfast of the whole thing: set the germans against the french, the french against the italians, the italians against the dutch. the foreign office is terribly pleased; it’s just like old times.
explains why the whole british establishment wanted un inside the eec, and was so against us leaving the eu.
how shall i put it?… even sheep that believe they are rich (when in fact they are getting poor) crave charismatic truthful leadership with integrity when everything else turns to $hit. thought poutine would be one of those at the start of 2014. guess those of us that believed he had the goods were dead wrong!
shucks, i have a hard time keeping track of all the provocations in this ‘unprovoked agression’ of russia’s.
cia ratcliff forgot his gulf stream again ?
if he’s not careful trump will rename it trump stream, then demand royalties.
you can’t carry dozens of dead cia operatives and us service people inside a gulfstream.
the cia dead had to be returned home, as for the russian’s it was a direct reminder to the us that they know what the us is up to, and here’s your dead so taken them back.
bik nazara? doesn’t sound very english to me.
the names of ukranian soldiers were released but not the english soldier. bik is one of the ukies.
that’s not even a ukrainian name.
you got me. i didn’t that to carefully the first time.
then it should be nazar byk, not nazara. byk mean a bull.
maybe he was one of those brown invading imports the gov keeps letting in.
“road crash” a good description of british involvement in globalist missions. he died for his king(s)
perhaps the vehicle he was traveling in crashed into a russian drone?
that’s still a “crash” isn’t it?
yeah, something like that.
he died because he left his brain home to dry out after a thorough washing.
through washing with infamous telemarathon on kiev-tv. there is one “telemarathon” for all channels. major stations create clips and combine them into one endless brainwashing chain, where you can hear such things as: no toilets and toilet paper in russia; putin died and his doubles rule the country; putin fears to die, so he is ruling from a fridge where he sleeps; shoigu and shamanic rituals in the kremlin; soldiers deserting from the victory day parade.
british special forces losses in ukraine and kurdistan are not publicly announced, however they can be picked out from occasional revelations of deaths of nco paratroopers and marines, where the spec ops come from.
officers are never named and usually have died of sporting accidents or road accidents in other places such as poland or estonia.
revelations such as this indicates senior officer training spec ops.
all of ukraine is one huge road accident. that’s why it’s called ukraine, as you crane your neck in disbelief (aka rubber necking) when driving by its self-imposed calamity.
je jedno, ako skapal. podstatné je, že skapal. niet viac o čom. mysleniu zdar a svetu mier.
aký život, taká smrť.
no british troops have been killed in ukraine. but an awful lot of them have fallen downstairs, drowned in their bathtubs, been struck by lightning, or eaten by wolves and bears while picking mushrooms in the forest. damned dangerous, those ukrainian bears and bathtubs.
and russian drones.
french admiral (a boy around 70 years), ex-commander of aircraft carrier, came to mounts at border with spain for ski riding and felt down right after missile strike to hotel in odessa where he was with other foreign officers and mercenaries.
strange how all these dead nato serving soldiers were not involved in combat operations or were doing ‘humanitarian’ work.
another retard dead fighting for the big corporations and greedy western elite ha ha
kill all those pedo britards