These foreign mercenaries put all conscience aside when they came to 'murder Russians' for profit and 'fun'. They knew what they faced before they joined. Their lot was determined at that point. No doubt they thought the Russians were a pushover - they misjudged severely and deserve NO sympathy for their poor life choices. They have two options: Surrender to face a court-imposed trial and sentence, or die. Their choice.
Choosing to fight and kill people just for the money as your career, I’d say, is the lowest of the low. They know about the Geneva convention. They know mercenaries have no protections under it. If they still wish to choose that career they must face the consequences if and when they get captured.
I think that they should be shot. They wanted to go to Russia and try to fight the Russian forces and now they will learn what it's like to fight in Russia.
Too bad.
They aren't allowed there and they broke International law.
The Geneva Convention protocol addresses this adequately. However there is a difference between foreign professionals who volunteer their expertise with little or no compensation, and those who make substantially more pay than regular soldiers. All must be treated humanely regardless of their motivation. Facing imminent execution if captured, would create an environment where the capturing force would be faced with having surrendering personnel inter mixed with those not willing to surrender. Those willing to surrender might perish due to the actions of those facing imminent execution. All must be afforded the chance to surrender. This will save lives on both sides. The punishment for mercenaries should be harsher, but remain humane.
"foreign professionals who volunteer their expertise with little or no compensation, and those who make substantially more pay than regular soldiers" Do you really believe that?
If it isn't about the Money, then they are psychopaths (Mad Dogs)
This is just a fiddle so that NATO countries avoid the commitment of declaring war on Russia and suffering the consequences of that.
I wouldn't have typed it had I believed it wasn't true. The French Foreign Legion are different than Academi, formerly known as Blackwater. Many contractors are little more than professional killers with military experience. All captives should be treated as humanely as Patrick Lancaster expects to be treated as a foreigner reporting for profit and fame.
I think you will find that Mr. Lancaster has a price on his head; as do many others like Scott Ritter, Eva Bartlett, and others who have never even be close to Ukraine! None of them "Expect to be treated Humanely"...!Was Gonzallo Lira treated humanely???
The way Ukraine treats people like Mr Lancaster and the others, does not dictate my actions. A person that fights only for money, who knows they will be executed, will absolutely endanger the lives of those he holds no loyalty to, in order to escape.
I disagree that "all captives should be treated humanely," since they VOLUNTEERED to be in another country, shooting their civilians. Maybe they should read the Geneva Conventions before they leave home, so they will have informed consent for what they are about to do.
Also, I disagree that Patrick Lancaster is reporting from Russia for "profit and fame." (It's said that most people think that other people are like themselves, so it sounds like that would be your own motivation.)
I'm sure he's there to tell the truth as he sees it. Perhaps it's you that should read the Geneva Convention Additional Protocol (API) to further educate yourself on the humane treatment of all prisoners.
Please tell me why there should be so much "humanity" to an army, So called Ukrainian or otherwise that execute the civilian population of a small village while leaving defeated by throwing granades in basements to kill old people hiding in there that could not leave before the battle. Doing it only because they are honest to their ethnicity and area dating back 100s of years.
Ukrainian Nazis are doing war crimes beyond even Hitler.
Unless you know which unit did so, it is not right to take it out on all Ukrainian soldiers. Remember, most have no choice, kidnapped on the street, and put out here to die.
You are correct that guilt should ascertained as much as possible. The Ukrainians have a very evil record for a long time now. Hell of a mess for to be sorted out.
No matter how you got on the battlefield, you have a personal choice on whether to kill civilians as you leave, or not. When you pull the pin on a hand grenade, you are making a personal choice. When you drop a land mine, you are making a personal choice.
The Ukrainian soldiers are lucky that they are treated as POWs.
The Ukrainians in the Nazi forces in WW2 were some of the most cruel of all the Nazi soldiers. Since they destroyed most of western Russia, they are very well remembered by the Russians, even if you don't.
The Russians, in my opinion, are showing great restraint and obedience to their commanders to capture them as POWs
Since you want to bring up World War II, ask the women who were in Germany in 1945 (the few who survived) how barbaric Russians can be. You want to bring up WWII, there you go.
I stand with Russia. In order to save Russian soldiers lives, and Ukrainian soldiers (many of whom are forced to fight after being abducted by Ukrainian dirtbags) the choice to surrender must be given. If these mercenaries who don't give a rats ass about Ukraine, know they will be executed, they will endanger all lives involved to escape.
Ukrainian soldiers are often shot by their own officers if they surrender! This is not the first time Putin has said this, so every mercenary thought about it and decided it was worth the risk!
The Ukrainian government should have thought about the possibility that mercenaries might cut and run when they accepted foreign mercenaries into their country.
This isn't a game. This isn't a rehearsal. It's life (and death). Think about that.
You can't run operations with two separate protocols for soldiers from here or from there - either it's a free fire zone / take no prisoners - or it's not.
Apparently, YES one can! Who are you exactly to say what rules should be or not be? What dogs do you have in this fight? What sacrifices have you made to feel entitled to have a voice?
Foreign fighters are not protected under the Geneva Convention nor should they be. They should be happy to face prison time when captured. In other places they are simply shot as Guerillas.
Foreign fighters are protected under the Geneva Convention additional protocol (API) regarding mercenaries. Humane treatment before punishment for crimes committed has been established. Humane execution or prison sentences are humane options.
They tried to recruit vets for Ukraine. I told them noway would I fight for a dam nazi, Russia is righteous in this one. That's why they will win and my country. The USA should stay the he'll out of it.
About captured foreign mercenaries, if the Geneva Conventions apply only to official servicemen, then I don't see why they should be given any special consideration. And I'm not there on the battle lines; I'd suspect that the soldiers who are there, though, would have some stories to tell about them. I think prison or execution is a pretty generous choice.
The foreign mercenaries that surrender to the Russia,s and survive are lucky. Unlike the fighters and teenagers picked up in Afghanistan, Iraq and other such places, they actually get a hearing and sentenced for a length of time, and do not have to waste away in Guantanamo Bay, toys for sadistic US service men .
In America the whole situation with Ukraine and Russia, the truths about the history and the circumstances surrounding what was really going on in Ukraine with Nazis, BioLabs and the government corruption, and the CIA's involvement have been kept from the American citizens. The Legacy Mockingbird Media pushed the deep state government narrative with all it's lies, obfuscations about what was really going on over there, and especially with the murdering of civilians, making it look like Russia was the aggressor which started the war to take over more land.
If it were not for Patrick's faithful reporting of the truth with boots on the ground we would be hard pressed to find it.
For those volunteer foreign soldiers/mercenaries, like so many of these stupid brainwashed Americans, and others from other countries, they were pawns of the deep state war mongering genocidal maniacs. Many really believed the load of lies and thought they were fighting and supporting the side of 'good', and felt it was their honorable duty to serve to help save the Ukrainian citizens from Russia. But murdering civilians whether a paid soldier or not is inexcusable.
But true Justice requires that those seeking to do good must strive to follow what is humane to prevent becoming like those who are not. As Russia has done with the UK soldier who surrended when captured, with a trial and sentencing whether that is prison or a death penalty.
May people everywhere repent and turn to Christ for the forgiveness of sin.
I truly hope & pray the Deep State warmongering filth are exposed, every last one of them, no matter who they are will face consequences. They are the perpetrators of so much hate & evil deeds. They have the blood of millions and millions world-wide is on their hands, they will reap what they have sown. May God help to bring Justice about for all the world to see.
May God bless all who seek Him, and to live rightly before Him in Christ! Amen!
Western media claims that the wholesale destruction of villages and towns is done by Russian action. When I share your reports with them, Patrick, I get ignored. They are determined to continue with the propaganda that Ukraine is the innocent party. They also deny that foreign fighters are on the ground and yet we hear of them all the time.
This is an information war as well as kinetic.
The thing about this report that most upsets me is the mention of civilians being killed as the Ukrainians retreat. That is just so appalling.
In respect of surrendering soldiers, I doubt that their original nationalities can be known until they are actually detained. So what are the Russians doing with them? If they are Ukrainian they are taken as prisoners of war but if they are external mercenaries fighting for Ukraine - are they then murdered?
Look love. I know that. I am just asking exactly HOW the mercenaries are identified, and then dealt with. If you do not like my question that is tough. Back off and let Patrick answer me with his on-the-scene experience please.
When you write on the Internet, your comments are public. Anything you say may be read by anyone. We have as much right to respond to you as you did in posting the original remark.
If you want to ask Patrick a private question, send him a DM.
B/c they have no ‘free will’ in those circumstances — often they are forced to say things they don’t believe, to save themselves from mal treatment — or worse. Trained journalists know not to interview them as it makes the POW’s situation worse.
Although their have been examples where POW’s used blinking to communicate secrete messages home (Vietnam, USAF pilot).
They don't get "maltreatment" as POWs. I don't know where you came up with that one.
You heard the Russian soldiers say that their Commander-in-Chief had ordered them to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner. For all you know, they might be treated better as POWs in Russia than they were back in Ukraine, where their government is snatching them off the street and forcing them into a war zone.
I think the choice given is fair. These are foreign fighters with absolutely no reason to be there. Yet they are fighting against Russia on Russian territory.
What do you think about mercenaries?
I have no mercy for a merc
Agree
These foreign mercenaries put all conscience aside when they came to 'murder Russians' for profit and 'fun'. They knew what they faced before they joined. Their lot was determined at that point. No doubt they thought the Russians were a pushover - they misjudged severely and deserve NO sympathy for their poor life choices. They have two options: Surrender to face a court-imposed trial and sentence, or die. Their choice.
Choosing to fight and kill people just for the money as your career, I’d say, is the lowest of the low. They know about the Geneva convention. They know mercenaries have no protections under it. If they still wish to choose that career they must face the consequences if and when they get captured.
Send the FOREIGN demon-Satanist NAZIS......back to HELL.....where they BELONG!
Please tell these wonderful Russian Soldiers that those FOREIGN NAZIS, from the USSA.....are NOT AMERICANS! They fight for the Satanic Globalists!
REAL Americans LOVE RUSSIA/RUSSIANS!
GOD BLESS RUSSIA!
GOD IS WITH RUSSIA!
I think that they should be shot. They wanted to go to Russia and try to fight the Russian forces and now they will learn what it's like to fight in Russia.
Too bad.
They aren't allowed there and they broke International law.
FAFO
They should be jailed for life the are traitors, I'm was a reserves army i wouldn't do it,Russia our in the right!
The Geneva Convention protocol addresses this adequately. However there is a difference between foreign professionals who volunteer their expertise with little or no compensation, and those who make substantially more pay than regular soldiers. All must be treated humanely regardless of their motivation. Facing imminent execution if captured, would create an environment where the capturing force would be faced with having surrendering personnel inter mixed with those not willing to surrender. Those willing to surrender might perish due to the actions of those facing imminent execution. All must be afforded the chance to surrender. This will save lives on both sides. The punishment for mercenaries should be harsher, but remain humane.
"foreign professionals who volunteer their expertise with little or no compensation, and those who make substantially more pay than regular soldiers" Do you really believe that?
If it isn't about the Money, then they are psychopaths (Mad Dogs)
This is just a fiddle so that NATO countries avoid the commitment of declaring war on Russia and suffering the consequences of that.
I wouldn't have typed it had I believed it wasn't true. The French Foreign Legion are different than Academi, formerly known as Blackwater. Many contractors are little more than professional killers with military experience. All captives should be treated as humanely as Patrick Lancaster expects to be treated as a foreigner reporting for profit and fame.
I think you will find that Mr. Lancaster has a price on his head; as do many others like Scott Ritter, Eva Bartlett, and others who have never even be close to Ukraine! None of them "Expect to be treated Humanely"...!Was Gonzallo Lira treated humanely???
The way Ukraine treats people like Mr Lancaster and the others, does not dictate my actions. A person that fights only for money, who knows they will be executed, will absolutely endanger the lives of those he holds no loyalty to, in order to escape.
I disagree that "all captives should be treated humanely," since they VOLUNTEERED to be in another country, shooting their civilians. Maybe they should read the Geneva Conventions before they leave home, so they will have informed consent for what they are about to do.
Also, I disagree that Patrick Lancaster is reporting from Russia for "profit and fame." (It's said that most people think that other people are like themselves, so it sounds like that would be your own motivation.)
I believe that he's there to tell the truth.
I'm sure he's there to tell the truth as he sees it. Perhaps it's you that should read the Geneva Convention Additional Protocol (API) to further educate yourself on the humane treatment of all prisoners.
Please tell me why there should be so much "humanity" to an army, So called Ukrainian or otherwise that execute the civilian population of a small village while leaving defeated by throwing granades in basements to kill old people hiding in there that could not leave before the battle. Doing it only because they are honest to their ethnicity and area dating back 100s of years.
Ukrainian Nazis are doing war crimes beyond even Hitler.
Unless you know which unit did so, it is not right to take it out on all Ukrainian soldiers. Remember, most have no choice, kidnapped on the street, and put out here to die.
You are correct that guilt should ascertained as much as possible. The Ukrainians have a very evil record for a long time now. Hell of a mess for to be sorted out.
No matter how you got on the battlefield, you have a personal choice on whether to kill civilians as you leave, or not. When you pull the pin on a hand grenade, you are making a personal choice. When you drop a land mine, you are making a personal choice.
The Ukrainian soldiers are lucky that they are treated as POWs.
The Ukrainians in the Nazi forces in WW2 were some of the most cruel of all the Nazi soldiers. Since they destroyed most of western Russia, they are very well remembered by the Russians, even if you don't.
The Russians, in my opinion, are showing great restraint and obedience to their commanders to capture them as POWs
Since you want to bring up World War II, ask the women who were in Germany in 1945 (the few who survived) how barbaric Russians can be. You want to bring up WWII, there you go.
No one is "taking it out" on Ukrainian soldiers." You heard the Russian soldiers say that any Ukrainians are prisoners of war.
We are discussing foreign mercenaries. They have no protection under the Geneva Conventions.
She deserves just as much humanity as she had when she came to kill my people for money!
I stand with Russia. In order to save Russian soldiers lives, and Ukrainian soldiers (many of whom are forced to fight after being abducted by Ukrainian dirtbags) the choice to surrender must be given. If these mercenaries who don't give a rats ass about Ukraine, know they will be executed, they will endanger all lives involved to escape.
Ukrainian soldiers are often shot by their own officers if they surrender! This is not the first time Putin has said this, so every mercenary thought about it and decided it was worth the risk!
There is the option of surrendering, but then they will receive a prison sentence.
Or humanely executed.
Yes. I think they can choose.
The Ukrainian government should have thought about the possibility that mercenaries might cut and run when they accepted foreign mercenaries into their country.
This isn't a game. This isn't a rehearsal. It's life (and death). Think about that.
Thank you for your opinion.
10 years in prison an 10 years helping the Russian people rebuild the country.
Foreign mercenaries should have no protection whatsoever; they should be shot on sight.
Easy to say from your comfortable lounge seat, eh?
You can't run operations with two separate protocols for soldiers from here or from there - either it's a free fire zone / take no prisoners - or it's not.
And people should understand that in a 'storming phase' of a battle it is often not possible to take prisoners.
Apparently, YES one can! Who are you exactly to say what rules should be or not be? What dogs do you have in this fight? What sacrifices have you made to feel entitled to have a voice?
19 years in a Russian prison...sends shivers down my spine...that Brit will regret bitterly his decision to go kill Russians
Foreign fighters are not protected under the Geneva Convention nor should they be. They should be happy to face prison time when captured. In other places they are simply shot as Guerillas.
Foreign fighters are protected under the Geneva Convention additional protocol (API) regarding mercenaries. Humane treatment before punishment for crimes committed has been established. Humane execution or prison sentences are humane options.
They tried to recruit vets for Ukraine. I told them noway would I fight for a dam nazi, Russia is righteous in this one. That's why they will win and my country. The USA should stay the he'll out of it.
You have a very righteous position.
However, It would be hard for the US to stay out of it, since it was the US government that started it to begin with.
About captured foreign mercenaries, if the Geneva Conventions apply only to official servicemen, then I don't see why they should be given any special consideration. And I'm not there on the battle lines; I'd suspect that the soldiers who are there, though, would have some stories to tell about them. I think prison or execution is a pretty generous choice.
The foreign mercenaries that surrender to the Russia,s and survive are lucky. Unlike the fighters and teenagers picked up in Afghanistan, Iraq and other such places, they actually get a hearing and sentenced for a length of time, and do not have to waste away in Guantanamo Bay, toys for sadistic US service men .
In America the whole situation with Ukraine and Russia, the truths about the history and the circumstances surrounding what was really going on in Ukraine with Nazis, BioLabs and the government corruption, and the CIA's involvement have been kept from the American citizens. The Legacy Mockingbird Media pushed the deep state government narrative with all it's lies, obfuscations about what was really going on over there, and especially with the murdering of civilians, making it look like Russia was the aggressor which started the war to take over more land.
If it were not for Patrick's faithful reporting of the truth with boots on the ground we would be hard pressed to find it.
For those volunteer foreign soldiers/mercenaries, like so many of these stupid brainwashed Americans, and others from other countries, they were pawns of the deep state war mongering genocidal maniacs. Many really believed the load of lies and thought they were fighting and supporting the side of 'good', and felt it was their honorable duty to serve to help save the Ukrainian citizens from Russia. But murdering civilians whether a paid soldier or not is inexcusable.
But true Justice requires that those seeking to do good must strive to follow what is humane to prevent becoming like those who are not. As Russia has done with the UK soldier who surrended when captured, with a trial and sentencing whether that is prison or a death penalty.
May people everywhere repent and turn to Christ for the forgiveness of sin.
I truly hope & pray the Deep State warmongering filth are exposed, every last one of them, no matter who they are will face consequences. They are the perpetrators of so much hate & evil deeds. They have the blood of millions and millions world-wide is on their hands, they will reap what they have sown. May God help to bring Justice about for all the world to see.
May God bless all who seek Him, and to live rightly before Him in Christ! Amen!
Western media claims that the wholesale destruction of villages and towns is done by Russian action. When I share your reports with them, Patrick, I get ignored. They are determined to continue with the propaganda that Ukraine is the innocent party. They also deny that foreign fighters are on the ground and yet we hear of them all the time.
This is an information war as well as kinetic.
The thing about this report that most upsets me is the mention of civilians being killed as the Ukrainians retreat. That is just so appalling.
In respect of surrendering soldiers, I doubt that their original nationalities can be known until they are actually detained. So what are the Russians doing with them? If they are Ukrainian they are taken as prisoners of war but if they are external mercenaries fighting for Ukraine - are they then murdered?
It's not "murder." Stop being dramatic.
It's war. You go to a foreign country to shoot people like pheasants and you might get shot.
You pays your money and you gets your choice.
It is murder if the person is disarmed and being detained. Sorry my undramatic prose is too much for you.
I disagree. The Geneva Conventions are pretty clear about foreign mercenaries.
They knew what they were getting into, and if they didn't, they were gullible as well as bloodthirsty.
Look love. I know that. I am just asking exactly HOW the mercenaries are identified, and then dealt with. If you do not like my question that is tough. Back off and let Patrick answer me with his on-the-scene experience please.
When you write on the Internet, your comments are public. Anything you say may be read by anyone. We have as much right to respond to you as you did in posting the original remark.
If you want to ask Patrick a private question, send him a DM.
No Mercy full stop God bless Russia 🙏😉
why are POWs not interviewed? What is the reasoning for it?
Geneva Convention about making a public spectacle out of prisoners.
B/c they have no ‘free will’ in those circumstances — often they are forced to say things they don’t believe, to save themselves from mal treatment — or worse. Trained journalists know not to interview them as it makes the POW’s situation worse.
Although their have been examples where POW’s used blinking to communicate secrete messages home (Vietnam, USAF pilot).
They don't get "maltreatment" as POWs. I don't know where you came up with that one.
You heard the Russian soldiers say that their Commander-in-Chief had ordered them to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner. For all you know, they might be treated better as POWs in Russia than they were back in Ukraine, where their government is snatching them off the street and forcing them into a war zone.
I was talking in broad terms about the history of warfare and journalism.
I think the choice given is fair. These are foreign fighters with absolutely no reason to be there. Yet they are fighting against Russia on Russian territory.
Prison or death is more than fair.
They went over there for one purpose: To kill Russians. Pre-meditated murders and mayhem. They deserve whatever comes.
Great post, Patrick.