An Irish soldier in Ukraine who is on a Russian kill list with a $50,000 bounty on his head said he is “guaranteed a slow and brutal death” if captured.
Rhys Byrne, 28, from Santry, Dublin, is attached to the International Freedom Fighters who operate on the front lines and in territory seized after Putin’s illegal invasion last February.
He is one of more than 400 foreign fighters on the dossier of death drawn up by the Kremlin. Rhys believes Moscow’s spies compiled the names through their network of spooks in Ukraine.
