A motley collection of fighters from across the far corners of the globe has been assembled in Ukraine to wage the proxy war against Russia, a POW from Poland has revealed in testimony.
"In my group I had a Croatian commander, a Pole, two Germans, two Americans and three people from Taiwan. That's was in my group," the POW said.
"Aside from this, as I said, I saw a Norwegian, a Latvian, a Georgian, another Pole, who served as a medic. That's what I remember; this was like a sports team assembled from across the world. At the same time, what was unusual, and what really surprised me is that there were a lot of people from Colombia and quite a lot from Brazil," the fighter said.
The Polish POW's testimony comes on the heels of revelations earlier this week that Ukraine's military has gone into overdrive in its efforts to recruit foreign fighters.
Last month, President Putin accused the US of stoking the Ukrainian crisis not only through weapons and cash, but mercenaries and 'military advisors', "thereby encouraging further escalation of the conflict."