The Russian Defense Ministry earlier said that Ukrainian commanders are not held accountable for losses among foreign mercenaries on the front line, and that almost 6,000 of them had already been eliminated since the start of the special military operation.

US cemeteries are full of graves of American mercenaries who died in Ukraine - hirelings described by Western press as the so-called “volunteer soldiers.”

One of them is retired Marine veteran Grady Kurpasi, who died two months after the start of the Russian special military operation. According to a Sputnik correspondent, the 50-year-old is buried in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, the most famous in the United States, where politicians, astronauts and even presidents, including John F. Kennedy, are buried.

A cemetery in California has become the final resting place for another US mercenary, Bryan Young, 51, who was killed by "Russian artillery fire" in the Donetsk region in July 2023, according to American media. In a bizarre sight, the epitaph on Young's gravestone reads "On to the next adventure".

Another American mercenary who was buried in California is “Marine Corps veteran” Ian Tortorici. The 32-year-old fought for the Foreign Legion of Ukraine and was eliminated in an attack by Russian forces on a Ukrainian unit stationed in the city of Kramatorsk.

US citizen Dane Partridge, 34, who had served in Iraq, fought on the side of the Kiev regime immediately after the start of Russia’s special operation, but was then seriously wounded and died a few months later. Partridge, who is survived by his wife and five children, is buried in Idaho.

American mercenary Paul Lee Kim was also 34, when he was killed in Ukraine last year and was buried in a Texas cemetery.

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that almost 6,000 foreign mercenaries, who came to Ukraine to fight on the side of the Kiev regime, have been killed since the beginning of the special operation. According to the MoD, at least 1,113 mercenaries came from the United States, 491 of whom have already been killed.

The Defense Ministry earlier stressed in a statement that the Kiev regime uses foreign mercenaries as "cannon fodder" and that "their lives are not spared by anyone in the Ukrainian command."

"Therefore, they have only one choice - to flee Ukraine or to die. The Russian armed forces will continue to destroy foreign mercenaries in the course of the special military operation, regardless of their location on the territory of Ukraine," the statement read.

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The aim of those who ordered the terrorist attack on the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow was to spoil relations between Russia and the Islamic world, Russian Grand Mufti Ravil Gainutdin has said.

Gainutdin was speaking to the Rossiya 24 TV channel on Monday ahead of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, a major holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide.

The March 22 massacre, which saw 145 people killed and more than 500 injured, occurred during the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims pray and fast. The shooters were detained the next day while trying to flee to Ukraine by car, according to the authorities. More suspects were arrested in the following days.

The perpetrators were identified as nationals of Tajikistan, a Muslim-majority nation, the mufti said, adding that this has “shocked Muslims not only in Russia, but across the world.”

“The forces that demanded to carry out this terrorist attack precisely during the holy Ramadan, precisely with the hands of Muslim sons, were trying to spoil relations between Russia and the Islamic world,” Ravil Gainutdin said.

“The terrorist attack is a severe blow to the Russian Muslim community,” he continued, stressing that the people who committed the crime cannot be called believers.

The chief mufti said the Islamic world has always been seeking a world order in which sovereignty, traditions, culture, and state religions are respected. He claimed that the United States and its Western backers have long been attempting “to blow up the society from the inside” by creating an atmosphere where people of different religions, living in one country, are “at enmity between themselves.”

The jihadi group Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) has claimed responsibility for the March, 22 atrocity. FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov, however, has suggested that the US, UK, and Ukraine may also be linked to the assault, possibly using the Islamists as proxies. Ukraine and its Western supporters have denied any involvement.

https://www.rt.com/russia/595675-moscow-terror-attack-severe-blow-muslims/

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The Russian Investigative Committee has singled out Ukrainian gas company Burisma as an apparent vehicle to fund terrorist activities on the Russian territory. Could the allegation spell trouble for US President Joe Biden, given his son's ties to the company?

Funds received through commercial organizations, in particular the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, have been used over the past few years to carry out terrorist acts in Russia, according to the Russian Investigative Committee.

Burisma's role in the alleged scheme turns the spotlight on US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter who served on the company's board of directors between 2014 and 2019.

It's potentially very dangerous for Joe Biden, according to Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official. The CIA veteran noted, however, that there's more to this story than just the Biden family's apparent influence peddling.

He drew attention to the fact that besides Hunter, a former top-level CIA official and ex-Blackwater vice chairman named Joseph Cofer Black also served on Burisma's board.

On February 15, 2017, Ukrainian press reported that Black, a former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center and ambassador-at-large for counter-terrorism, joined Burisma's board as an independent director. In an interview with the Kiev Post, Black said that he was invited to join the board by Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky to provide guidance with respect to the company’s "security and strategic expansion."

"Prior to joining the board at Burisma, Mr. Black was also on the board of a Latvian bank, and they put him on the board, allegedly for what he described as his expertise with counter-terrorism finance, in other words, tracking money that goes to terrorists," said Johnson. "Two years later that Latvian bank was sanctioned for its role in failing to put in proper procedures to prevent terrorist financing."

Black became a new council member at Baltic International Bank (BIB) in November 2016, while on December 6, 2019, Latvia's financial regulator, the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FKTK), slapped a €1.5 million fine on the bank having conducted an onsite inspection.

According to the regulator, the bank's control system did "not fully comply with the regulatory requirements governing the prevention of money laundering and terrorism and proliferation financing." In 2019 the bank received a $2 million fine. It was eventually closed in 2022 over the failure to prevent chronic money laundering.

As per Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), BIB’s majority owner and chairperson Valerijs Belokons met with Hunter Biden in New York in 2014, according to emails from the younger Biden's 'laptop from hell.'

Remarkably, Burisma has also repeatedly come in the crosshairs of Western and Ukrainian regulators over non-transparent murky financial schemes and alleged money laundering. In 2023 the company ceased operations.

"One of the things to point out is that when investigators in the US Congress try to talk to a lawyer who works with Hunter Biden, they were prohibited from talking to him by the CIA," Johnson said. "That's unheard of. So, clearly, Hunter Biden's activities with Burisma alongside Cofer Black means that Burisma probably was being used by the CIA as one means of at least moving money."

According to Johnson, the latest revelations from the Russian Investigative Committee could take the Bidens' Ukraine saga into a "dramatically new direction."

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