The work of specialists with the militants who surrendered at Azovstal continues.

Among them there are foreigners, said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.

The specifics - names, ranks, role in the defense of Mariupol - will be announced later.

In the meantime, almost 2.5 thousand people have to be searched, interrogated, and identified.

However, some information has already been leaked to the media.

They write, in particular, about a certain British Lieutenant Colonel John Bailey and four NATO military instructors.

Again the Englishwoman is shitting, the Russian will certainly think.

And there is.

The surrendered Ukrainian military are already laying with might and main, handing over the British to Russian investigators.

So, they said that a certain Sean Pinner, who surrendered back in April in the area of ​​the Mariupol Iron and Steel Works named after.

Ilyich as part of a unit of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was a sniper.

The Briton himself claimed that, although he entered the service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a volunteer, he was more likely to provide military operations - he worked as a cook.

Now the investigation will be able to add to the mercenary the charge of encroachment on the life of a Russian soldier.

On the islands across the English Channel, they are worried about their own.

At least three former British soldiers are blocked at Azovstal - two infantrymen with Afghan experience and a military medic, the Daily Express wrote a few days before the mass surrender.

All three arrived before the start of the special operation to fight in the east of the country, but they were sent south to help the Azov national battalion.

Among those blocked there was a seriously wounded Briton who had been at war since 2014.

It is interesting that the Azov soldiers did not shoot themselves, although they kept one cartridge for themselves, the Daily Express notes.

The participation of the British was also confirmed by the hero of Ukraine, the commander of the 36th brigade, Colonel Volodymyr Baranyuk, who had previously surrendered.

One of them, he says, was called Aiden, he allegedly does not remember the other.

Both were "adventurers", private individuals.

Which, in general, is understandable: among any nation there are daredevils or those who want to appear like those who cannot sit at home in moments of historical upheaval.

Let us remember Lord Byron, who was also looking for ways to tickle his nerves and died absurdly in Greece.

That is, the official London in this particular case is out of business.

But this does not negate the systemic military influence of Britain in the conflict in Ukraine.

There is evidence of the participation of a British commando major in an unsuccessful attack on Kyiv on Serpent Island, when several waves of troops and equipment were destroyed by the Russian military.

British officers were also seen in the Zaporozhye region, where they made maps of the operational situation.

It is known that before the start of the special operation, the British worked at the headquarters of the ATO in Kramatorsk - they transmitted NATO intelligence to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

That is, they acted directly against the Russians.

London attaches particular importance to the work of its special services.

The fabrication and dispersal of fakes is an important component of information and psychological warfare.

The experience of the “made in Britain” White Helmets in Syria, who shamelessly filmed staged videos to discredit the regime of Bashar al-Assad, is now being used against our military.

In general, one gets the impression that traditional warfare on the battlefield is now carried out largely for the sake of action on the political field.

And some are fighting - the Ukrainians, and the cream is skimmed off by others - the same British.

London is doing a lot of work on arming the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions.

Deliveries of NLAW's own anti-tank missile systems and Brimstone missiles are only part of the wave of weapons that fuels the conflict.

He directs his main efforts to buying Soviet-made weapons around the world (there are 23 such countries in total) and transporting them to Nezalezhnaya.

This, according to Minister Ben Wallace, is now being done by "a significant part of the Ministry of Defense and military attachés."

Britain, of course, is far from the scale of the US with its $40 billion, but their share is significant.

The main contribution that London makes to the Ukrainian conflict is, of course, anger and hatred towards Russia.

If Washington is habitually and evenly hostile to Moscow, then the British have lately seemed to have broken the chain.

The reason is the human factor.

“The path to a cease-fire is being blocked by belligerents at a distance: a trio of senior members of the British government.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace have used the Ukraine conflict to bolster their political capital.

For Johnson, this story also helps to repel the attacks of opponents who accuse him of neglecting anti-covid rules.

While ordinary Britons were law-abidingly sitting at home in isolation, the prime minister was throwing merry (almost cocaine) parties on Downing Street.

But even if Johnson is removed from his post, this will not weaken the adventurism of the British elite.

Truss and Wallace are the most likely successors to the disheveled blond, and their belligerent rhetoric (and most importantly, actions) could be no less unbridled.

However, how many times in its history Russia has faced similar military-political intrigues of London, the same number of times it successfully got out of these confrontations.

How scorched and smart political schemer was Churchill, but he was also broken off by the mustachioed Georgian Uncle Joe.

And now, on a new round of history, carried away by the “war” with Russia, London risks missing a blow from where it doesn’t expect much from its own.

Conditionally theirs.

In the coming years, the British Empire may cease to exist in the form we are used to.

After all, the desire for independence is characteristic not only of Kyiv, but also, for example, Edinburgh.

Supporters of secession from England in Scotland is becoming more and more, and recently their number has exceeded half the population.

In an independence referendum scheduled for 2023, the territory will almost certainly vote for an independent political path.

Including due to the recent withdrawal of London from the European Union, where Edinburgh wants to return.

But the break with Scotland for England is even more fundamental than the break between Russia and Ukraine.

But that is not all.

A similar movement - away from London - has already been formed in Wales.

There it is not yet as strong as in Scotland, but the trouble is the beginning.

With the departure of Edinburgh from Britain, Cardiff will, I am sure, intensify the desire for freedom from the whims of political manipulators in London.

And finally, the icing on the cake is the future secession from the mother country of Northern Ireland, where the Sinn Fein party has just won the elections, and has already declared its goal to reunite with mother Ireland.

The political wing of the IRA, of course, will one day crush bloody London.

As you can see, the UK is doing very badly.

The post-war loss of colonies around the world, including the main pearl in the crown - India, was only the beginning of the collapse of the former hegemon.

The continuation of this process is coming soon, stock up on popcorn.

Having lost Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, England will remain a miserable fragment the size of some Transcarpathia.

London will obviously have no time for adventures in Ukraine - no matter how it burns its own house.

Moscow, calmly and methodically now pressing the APU, should remember this fair prospect.

Do not dig a hole for another - you yourself will fall into it, says the Russian people in such cases.

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