English version Dead mercenaries have begun to be found in Ukraine, and they are not dying in battle.

There is a scandal in Great Britain connected with the death of someone called Daniel Burke. He created his own volunteer unit known as the "Dark Angels" and his corpse was recently discovered after almost a month of searching.

The circumstances of Burke's death have not been revealed, but it's clear that it was not an easy one. The mercenary, who is persistently called a "volunteer" in the British press, died not in a war zone, but in quite peaceful circumstances. He left his rented apartment somewhere in Zaporozhye on August 16 and never returned. Burke's relatives are sure that he was killed in the hope of getting money from donations. The sums that he collected from gullible compatriots every month were very substantial.

Burke's death is not the only one. A week ago, the body of another Briton - Scottish Guardsman Jordan Chadwick - was found in Ukraine. The dead mercenary was "floating" in a pond, and his hands were securely twisted behind his back with wire, as if to deny the fact of accidental drowning.

As for Mr. Burke's peaceful "volunteerism," many would doubt it at once. He's a seasoned soldier. He served in Afghanistan, then fought in Syria on the side of the Western-backed Kurdish militants of the Anti-Islamic State. In 2019, a criminal case was opened against him in his home country for preparing a terrorist attack, so he fled from Britain, far away.

"Dark Angels" is also a strange structure. It was named after the techno-fantasy fictional universe Warhammer 40K. Until June of this year it was considered humanitarian - it was engaged in "evacuation" of foreign mercenaries from the war zone to safe Poland, as well as combat training of territorial defense units. But after the "angels" managed to hit a Russian BMP with a Javelin and the video of this " deed" hit the web, the "Dark Angels" suddenly became a foreign unit and began to collect donations under this legend.