{"id":11804,"date":"2022-12-24T04:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:10:25","slug":"ukraine-fierce-street-battles-between-american-mercenaries-and-russian-spetsnaz-in-bakhmut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=11804","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Fierce street battles between American mercenaries and Russian Spetsnaz in Bakhmut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A video of a group of American and Anglo-Saxon (Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British) mercenaries clashing with Russian Spetsnaz and pinned down in a building in Bakhmut by Russian fire has been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow has created Spetsnaz teams tasked with neutralizing and capturing American and Anglo-Saxon mercenaries wherever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video proves two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, the percentage of foreigners fighting in the Ukrainian forces is particularly large<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, that there are indeed fierce street battles in the city and near its center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exact number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine has not been determined, but the Russians believe that they reach a number that even reaches 80,000, and as they say, the majority of them are not former but current soldiers who resigned from their respective armies before coming to Ukraine to no official involvement of their governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a group of American and Anglo-Saxon (Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British) mercenaries clashing with Russian Spetsnaz and pinned down in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,7,3830],"tags":[58,1156,1976,3395],"class_list":["post-11804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-science","category-research","category-war-in-ukraine","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27763,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions\/27763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}