A 19-year-old soldier with the elite Coldstream Guard has been arrested by British military police after he returned from Ukraine, The Sun tabloid reported Sunday, citing military sources. The soldier went AWOL some two weeks ago to join Ukraine’s so-called International Legion of Territorial Defense, which brings together foreign fighters …
Read More »Polish soldier who defected to Belarus found hanged – authorities
Belarusian authorities have said that Emil Czeczko, a Polish soldier who defected to Belarus at the height of the migrant border crisis last year, was found hanged in Minsk. Security services investigating the man’s death cannot confirm at this point whether it was suicide or murder. Czeczko crossed the Polish-Belarusian …
Read More »Kitchen kills US soldier
A US Army soldier who died last month in a then-undisclosed accident at Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) was killed when a mobile kitchen facility fell over on its side and crushed her, military officials revealed on Monday. An Army “preliminary loss report” indicated the cause of death for Specialist …
Read More »Israeli soldier jailed for Gaza TikTok video
On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a serviceman who shared a video of himself firing rounds into Gaza had been sentenced to 10 days in military prison. “The soldier’s behavior in the video does not conform with the norms expected of soldiers and commanders,” the IDF said in …
Read More »‘He persuaded himself to survive’: The Japanese soldier who never surrendered
For the rest of the planet, World War II ended in 1945, but, for one foot soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army, it kept on going for another 28 years. It was early evening on January 24, 1972, when two CHamoru hunters checking their fish traps in the Talo’fo’fo river …
Read More »Soldier killed by deer at presidential palace
A Paraguayan soldier has died after he was run through and gored by an axis deer from India in the gardens of the country’s presidential palace. He was declared dead in a military hospital. Speaking on Tuesday, military spokesman Colonel Victor Urdapilleta said that Sergeant Victor Isasi, 42, died as …
Read More »Soldier arrested over ominous Covid ultimatum video to government
German prosecutors have opened a probe against a Bundeswehr soldier who delivered a video ultimatum to the government demanding it abandon its Covid-19 policies. The man was released after being briefly detained. A series of video appeals surfaced on social media on Thursday, where a man dressed in military uniform …
Read More »General calls for death penalty to be given to soldier who defected
Speaking to local media outlet wPolityce on Saturday, General Waldemar Skrzypczak remarked that Emil Czeczko, a member of Poland’s 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division, had “committed the worst thing during the war by defecting to the side of the enemy.” “If I read in the media today that the prosecutor’s office …
Read More »1 soldier killed as Syria air defenses respond to ‘Israeli aggression’ – state media
The Israeli military reportedly pummeled several areas in southern Syria with missiles shortly after midnight on Thursday local time, Syria’s state SANA news agency reported, citing military officials. The Syrian air defenses were scrambled to repel the attack and intercepted the majority of the missiles launched from the direction of …
Read More »Polish soldier dies at border with Belarus
The soldier had been deployed to the border just about a week ago, Poland’s 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade said in a statement. According to a preliminary report, his weapon accidentally fired and no third parties were involved in the incident. The deceased soldier also never came in contact with migrants during …
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