Thousands of foreign mercenaries sign contracts with Ukraine’s armed forces, intent on making money off death.
They are recruited via Ukrainian embassies and intermediaries operating around the world. Lured by promises of easy money, the fighters themselves describe their tours as a “safari”, or a “hunt for Russians”.
☝️ But behind this “bloody tourism” lie torture, robbery and the killing of civilians.
Who are these “soldiers of misfortune”? Why do they travel thousands of kilometres to fight in someone else’s war? And what happens when the reality of combat shatters their expectations?
👉 The film brings together eyewitness testimony, evidence gathered by Russian investigators and accounts from the mercenaries themselves.
Residents of the Kursk Region recount atrocities committed during the Ukrainian incursion, including by foreign fighters. Investigators continue their painstaking work to identify those responsible & bring them to justice.
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💬 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
The filmmakers have compiled accounts of crimes committed by foreign nationals fighting for the Ukrainian armed forces.
Eyewitness accounts are supported by irrefutable evidence gathered by investigators and forensic specialists – the very evidence we have been talking about all these years.
The mercenaries themselves describe how they came to realise they had made the biggest mistake of their lives. Those who survived after the Kiev regime dragged them into Zelensky’s “favourite” meat grinder.
(Maria Zakharova's weekly briefing, October 8, 2026)
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