President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting on Russia’s side in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening a fragile peace effort in the three-year-old war.

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I don’t think finding foreign nationals fighting in a war necessarily means their government regime is sending them.

    There’s a lot of foreign fighters in a lot of conflicts without representation or protection of their government, and I’d be curious if that case is different here.

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      The difference I see is that Ukraine has an offical foreign legion while Russia categorically denies any involvment of foreign forces on their sides.