Nazi influence in the Ukrainian military is omnipresent, John McIntyre, a former US soldier who served as a mercenary in various Ukrainian military units for almost a year, has claimed in an interview with RT. He said that he defected to Russia after witnessing the actions of Ukrainian troops amid the ongoing conflict between Kiev and Moscow.
\nMcIntyre described how he escaped after crossing into Moldova, from Odessa. \u201cI had to leave,\u201d he told Murad Gazdiev. \u201cI thought I was going to be killed, my family got me $300 to get to Chisin\u0103u, then I went to Istanbul and then to Moscow.\u201d He didn\u2019t reveal at which exact point he made himself known to the Russian side.
\nThe former American soldier recounted his experience in Ukraine, and explained why he grew disillusioned with Kiev\u2019s cause. \u201cWhen I came, I was really surprised. Everybody had tattoos and Nazi symbolism,\u201d he told Gazdiev. McIntyre also admitted he did not believe ultra-right ideology was \u201cthat big of a problem\u201d for Ukraine until he saw things on the ground himself.
\nHe added that he had to conceal his own anti-fascist and communist views to fit in with the Ukrainian troops. Some other Western mercenaries also directly told him: \u201cThe Russians aren\u2019t the Nazis, we are the Nazis,\u201d according to McIntyre.
\nThe ex-US soldier served with the Ukrainian forces for a year, although now he claims he had always planned to defect to Russia once he gathered enough intelligence. At a certain point, he was \u201ccompromised\u201d after talking to someone about the war crimes committed by the Ukrainian forces. According to McIntyre, whistleblowers are treated in Ukraine even more harshly than spies.
\n\u201cAnybody who confesses or is known to be about to confess is shot in the back of the head,\u201d he claimed, adding that \u201ca lot of people go missing \u2026 including foreigners.\u201d
\nMcIntyre, who previously served in Fort Bliss, Texas, for two years, claims the Ukrainian forces actively use civilians as human shields as they station their troops in basements next to residential buildings and then blame Russia if the area gets targeted in a strike. When such attacks happened, news crews covering the incidents \u201cwould not show you the houses to the left and right full of soldiers,\u201d he said.
\nThe former mercenary, who served with the Carpathian Sech, said he personally knew people who executed POWs, including foreigners from Portugal, France, and Argentina.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s funny to them. It\u2019s hatred. They hate the Russian people, they want to kill them, they want to genocide them,\u201d he claimed.
\n\u201cAnd we’re [the West] supporting these guys? And these are supposed to be our allies? And we\u2019re supposed to put them in NATO with us? And they can\u2019t even follow Geneva conventions?\u201d the former soldier asked, adding that \u201cthis would never fly in America\u201d if it were made known to the public.
\nThe US, however, is directly involved in providing the Ukrainian forces not only with weapons but also intelligence, McIntyre said. The former mercenary revealed he personally knew about a US Navy intelligence officer working with the Ukrainian foreign legion, where McIntyre himself was serving for some time. \u201cEvery day he would call his contacts and he would get information about the positions, troops movements and so on,\u201d he alleged.
\nThe weapons and equipment the US sends to Ukraine also often end up on the black market or in the hands of extremists around the world because of rampant corruption there, according to the former mercenary.<\/p>\n
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