American/western mercenary in mariupol region of ukraine after rocket attacks
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An English speaking mercenary seen in a video following the assault on Mariupol early Saturday has been identified through social media as British-born Leon Swampy.
Swampy can be seen toward the end of the following video guiding a video journalist through a schoolyard which had been struck by Grad rocket fire early Saturday in Mariupol.
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Swampy was identified through his profile on the popular Ukrainian social media site vKontakte which lists 3 ‘noteworthy’ pages, one of which belonging to the Azov Battalion: “Azov” Special Purpose Regiment.
https://thedailyledeblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/english-speaking-mercenary-in-mariupol-idd-as-brit-leon-swampy-from-london-england/
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