Stuart Littlewood writes:

This comes from a US military news source and I pass it on for what it’s worth:

Our Belarus correspondent sent us photos of one of the hotels where the incoming mercenaries were staying, being blown up. The gloves are off now. No one has ever done that before. Published reports claim they are offered $1000 to $2000 a day, which seems hyped.

Something like this we have never had before, not only a detailed combat action map, but locations of all the specific military units.

The second is a hotel of recently arrived mercenaries that were staying in this hotel for a meet and greet prior to Ukraine deciding what use to put them to.

This shows that Russian military Intel wants to send a message to all the incoming mercenaries that they have put a team on teaching them that staying home and minding their own business might have been better.

I think now they may not be staying in hotels.

Western media coverage seems to have zero coverage on Donbas being shelled for eight years. Those with kids eight and under have never known anything but the basement and school, and almost no one knows this.

As the Ukraine troops retreat, they destroy the electric, the gas lines and the water systems, not being able to figure out that they will now get the same treatment.

If that happens there will be a ton of them coming to Europe as refugees, and to escape war crimes trials, where they might consider when this is over that it was a good trade off, swapping Ukraine for Europe

I have deleted the combat map as it’s hard to read.

Despite the temptation of $1000-2000 a day, those brave souls who are inspired by the heroics of the International Brigade in the Spanish civil war had better think again if planning an adventure to “liberate” the good people of Ukraine.