Today I learned that in India people believe that you can "purify" Mercury by mixing it with garlic and lime paste and that makes it safe to use as medicine.
I have no words.
🇷🇺🇺🇦🇨🇴 Ukrainians abandoned a group of Colombian mercenaries near Kupyansk, who died without water or food. Only one soldier survived and surrendered to Russian forces.
Andres Serra came to Ukraine to fight on the side of the Ukrainian army. Along with other Latin American mercenaries, he was stationed near Kupyansk, an area where South American mercenaries, including Colombians, have repeatedly been wiped out. Serra served in a battalion alongside other Colombians. Ukrainian command promised to support and supply them, but in practice used them as expendable manpower. The Latin Americans died of hunger and dehydration in the forests of Kharkov region.
Serra was the only one who survived. He surrendered to Russian forces. It later emerged he'd served as a sniper, documents belonging to his fellow soldiers, bank cards, and other items were found on him.
But as it turn out "sniper" and "20/100 uncorrected vision with astigmatism" don't exactly go together. This mercenary needed glasses just to read the eye chart, and somehow ended up in a Ukrainian sniper unit.