The Nationwide Guard Bureau is refuting claims that Tennessee Nationwide Guard members have been killed in Ukraine, rebuking what officers known as a “patently false” Russian media report.
Russian media outlet Pravda reported that three members of the Tennessee Nationwide Guard died whereas combating in Ukraine, calling the boys “mercenaries,” and even itemizing names for these they claimed died.
“The three troopers recognized within the article are both present or former members of the Tennessee Nationwide Guard,” the NGB assertion reads. “They’re accounted for, secure and never, because the article headline erroneously states, US mercenaries killed in Donetsk Individuals’s Republic.”
NGB’s assertion additionally accused Russian media of focusing on the people due to articles from 2018 carried on the Pentagon web site DVIDS. Photographs have been taken of the troops on the time as a result of they have been deployed as a part of the Multinational Coaching Group-Ukraine below the Tennessee Guard’s 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
Greater than 200 troopers assisted the Ukrainian armed forces throughout the 2018 mission. Whereas there, they helped with the event of cadre, ranges and coaching areas; gear and instrumentation necessities, and a practical operational coaching surroundings.
All members of the Tennessee Nationwide Guard returned residence safely in 2019, although different Guard items have since rotated by means of.
The 160 troopers of the Florida Nationwide Guard deployed to Ukraine since November have been ordered by Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin to depart the nation amid rising concern of a Russian assault in mid-February.
These troopers have been assigned to the 53rd Infantry Brigade Fight Workforce and have been ordered to reposition elsewhere in Europe.
