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Operation Z Telegram channel : Military correspondents of the Russian Spring report that the ranks of Russian forces fighting in the zone of the Northern Military District have been replenished with the first battalion of former soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Volunteer battalion named after Bogdan Khmelnytsky – entered service at the Cascade Observatory of the Technical Fleet ,” the channel writes.
The unit was led by battalion commander Andrey Tishchenko.
“Former captured soldiers expressed their desire to fight on the side of Russia and joined the tactical operational combat formation Cascade,” he said.< /p>