“If I get captured by the Russians, I am guaranteed a slow and brutal death, because I’m covered in anti-Russian tattoos.'
An Irish soldier in Ukraine who is on a Russian kill list with a $50,000 bounty on his head said he is “guaranteed a slow and brutal death” if captured.
“If I get captured by the Russians, I am guaranteed a slow and brutal death, because I’m covered in anti-Russian tattoos. Rhys added the danger is if Moscow’s forces corner him on the battlefield but he has no fears they can target him in Ukrainian-held territory. He said: “If the death squads come for me, I’m in a military unit, [so] you’ve got to infiltrate it.
Rhys, who served in the French Foreign Legion and the private sector, added images of women and children killed in Russian shelling attacks motivated him to take up arms. He said: “I was there from the start of the war. When I heard Russians were killing kids and just eradicating everything in front of them, I said, ‘That’s not right’.
Declining to give the exact location for security reasons, Rhys added: “I’ve shot at them. They went down. That seal of approval means it is an official battalion and Rhys and his comrades have commissioned ranks which come with salaries.
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