Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the West has been ready to take action. It not only transported large amounts of military equipment to Ukraine through various means, but also tacitly allowed its own citizens to go to Ukraine to participate in the war. Since Western countries and Russia are not at war, these Westerners who participate in the war in a private capacity are regarded as mercenaries .
html On June 9, three foreign mercenaries were sentenced to death by the court of the "Donetsk People's Republic". Among the three mercenaries, two are Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner from the UK, and one is a student Sutton Ibrahim from Morocco. They surrendered to the Russian army together with the Azov Battalion and other Ukrainian defenders after the Russian army besieged the Mariupol Steel Plant for 48 days.
The news that the British mercenary was sentenced to death caused a strong reaction in the United Kingdom. The British side said: If Putin instructs the "Donetsk People's Republic" to execute the British who fought for Ukraine, British Prime Minister Johnson will ask Russia By "declaring war", the Russia-Ukraine war will take an extremely dangerous turn and there will be no way out.
Faced with the British clamor, Russia seemed confident. On June 25, Yuri Shvetkin, Vice Chairman of the Russian Defense Council, said: Donetsk has the right to try mercenaries within the judicial framework, and no one has the right to interfere.
The senior Russian official also issued a warning to the United Kingdom: If the "Salmat" missile is launched, the United Kingdom can be destroyed in two minutes. Therefore, the British must consider the consequences clearly before making remarks.
The cause of this conflict between Russia and the UK is obviously the death penalty for mercenaries. Mercenaries are a special profession for the purpose of making money. According to the " Geneva Convention", mercenaries do not enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war. Countries have strict regulations on employment. Soldiers are also handled differently. The laws of the "Donetsk People's Republic" stipulate that once a mercenary is captured, he will face up to seven years in prison, and in severe cases, he will be sentenced to death. Therefore, the three mercenaries being sentenced to death did not violate international law and were also in compliance with the local laws of the "Donetsk People's Republic".
Before sentencing three mercenaries to death, Russian war reports showed that more than 3,000 mercenaries working for the Ukrainian government had been killed. This time, the "Donetsk People's Republic" publicly sentenced British and Moroccan mercenary captives to death. Not only It can punish NATO and other countries for providing military aid to Ukraine and acquiescing to mercenaries to intervene in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. At the same time, it is also destroying the psychological defense of those NATO mercenaries fighting for Ukraine.
British mercenary Aslin said in an interview with Russia Today before the verdict: "I was a little bit fooled." Aslin said that he has been paying attention to the Russia-Ukraine conflict since 2014. At first, he supported the return of Crimea to Russia. And believe that the people of Donbass have the right to choose independence . However, under the offensive of Western media, Aslin gradually believed that "Russian soldiers and not Ukrainians did everything in Donbass." The deception of the West led him to the situation he is in today.
And Britain’s threat to go to war with Russia is also a sign of overestimating its capabilities. Over the past 70 years, Britain's national power has been shrinking, and it has long lost its glory as an empire. At the end of World War II, the Royal Navy had 16 battleships , 50 aircraft carriers, 62 cruisers , nearly 200 destroyers , 131 submarines and 9,000 other ships in service. The number reaches 800,000.
After the end of World War II, Egypt, Sudan, India and other places that had been seized by the British for half a century became independent. These places were different from France's African colonies. France took advantage of the imperfect political system and economic activities in Africa at the beginning of independence. Single and depleted of military power, while continuing to engage in economic colonization in Africa, it also deeply cultivated African education and culture. Therefore, France's influence is still deep today, and it is known as the "African Gendarmerie."
The larger British colonies also had a very strong desire to truly control their own nation independently. In 1954, India's first Prime Minister Nehru also proposed the "Non-Aligned Movement" in Sri Lanka . Without the blood transfusion of the colonies, the empire on which the sun never sets can no longer maintain huge military expenditures, and the total number of armed forces has shrunk to insufficient 300,000 people, including about 100,000 army troops, 55,000 air force troops, 45,000 naval troops, 50,000 external troops and thousands of nuclear weapons troops. Even Britain's proud navy has difficulty keeping up with the development of a modern navy. Currently, the main force of the British Navy is only two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, 11 nuclear submarines, 6 destroyers, and 13 frigates. , can barely form two aircraft carrier formations. Unfortunately, one of the aircraft carriers often suffers from water leakage and other accidents, and has been parked in the dock for long periods of time for repairs. Britain's strength made it difficult for it to face and Argentina in the Falklands War, let alone pose a threat to Russia.
Britain, which has declined militarily to such a state, will obviously not take Russia's warning of war to Russia . On April 20, 2022, Russia was in Plesets, Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the northwest The Kremlin launch site successfully test-fired a "Sarmat" intercontinental ballistic missile, hitting a target 6,000 kilometers away on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia, marking another step forward for Russia's strategic weapons. up a step.
Aerospace and missile industries have always been Russia's strengths. Even the United States often rents Russia's "Soyuz" spacecraft to send people and materials into the space station . This time Russia spent more than ten years developing the "Soyuz" spacecraft. The power of the Sarmat intercontinental missile is even more terrifying. Not only can its range reach 16,000 kilometers, covering almost any corner of the earth, but its throwing weight can reach 8 tons, and it can carry ten 750,000-ton TNT-equivalent sub-missiles. head.
In May of this year, when Finland claimed to join NATO, Alexei Zhuravlev, deputy chairman of the Defense Committee of the Russian Parliament, told the media that the "Dagger" hypersonic missile that could carry nuclear warheads only cost 10 Finland can be wiped out in seconds. If the "Sarmat" missile carrying multiple nuclear warheads is launched from Kaliningrad, it will only take 200 seconds to reach the United Kingdom.
The British are obviously not the only foreign mercenaries who were captured. Why did the court of the "Donetsk People's Republic" choose two British and one Moroccan to scare chickens and monkeys? In this regard, Gurulev, a member of the Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, said: "The biggest threat to the world and the worst is the Anglo-Saxons." It’s no longer the same. In May of this year, Ukrainian President Zelensky said in an interview with the media: French President Macron once advised Ukraine to seek peace by giving Putin a step up. Germany also showed nonchalance in providing military assistance to Ukraine. Russia keenly captured the change in attitude between Germany and France and sentenced two British mercenaries to death. This was Russia's tough counterattack.
Based on the current attitude of Germany and France towards the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is even more difficult for the UK to declare war on Russia. As a member of NATO, the UK's declaration of war with Russia is very likely to drag NATO into the abyss of war with Russia. Now Germany and France are eager for a war between Russia and Ukraine. To calm down as soon as possible, we will not agree to the UK dragging NATO into the water.
