For some time, I have reported that Special Forces have been in Ukraine, and Russia knows that. Now, leaked documents have confirmed that reality. Even in Vietnam, there were special forces there well before any official invasion. Ukrainians have used this, claiming that NATO is in Ukraine and hiding in schools using children as cover. Russia has been deploying thermobaric weapons, also known as a vacuum bomb, which is a type of explosive munitions that work by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid, or powder, and it is more deadly than a conventional weapon of the same size. It uses the air around it, and this sucks in the oxygen – hence the vacuum bomb. Americans have been killed on the battlefield there, but they are private mercenaries. CNN reported that the dead American was Special Forces.
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