On August 8, according to Russia's Zvezda TV, the Russian military captured a Vietnamese mercenary for the first time.

This morning, Russian soldiers arrested a Vietnamese man who had joined the Ukrainian army in the Kupiansk direction. The prisoner had long hair and wore an armband of the 4th International Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (4-го интернационального легиона ВСУ).

The Vietnamese mercenary said that he was the only survivor on his side, and more than 120 others had been killed. He was recruited by Ukraine from a North American country because it paid well. He hopes the Russian forces will not kill him, saying that Vietnam and Russia are friendly countries.

According to the staff of the Vietnamese embassy in Russia, they will interrogate and verify the true identity information of this Vietnamese person together with the FSB of the Russian Federation.

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