The Armed Forces of Ukraine have volunteer units from Russia, Belarus, Georgia, European countries and other countries,
And also volunteers from Daesh (aka ISIS) and other Takfiri terrorist groups like the rebranded Al-Qaida. These are members of the same terrorist groups that Ukraine is openly and shamelessly supporting and cooperating with inside Syria as well
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33695And what unusual did you see in the fact that the Ukrainian special forces of the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR), together with the Syrian rebels, destroyed the Russian military in Syria in March 2024? Even the article you are referring to indicates that in the fall of 2022, Russia had already transferred some troops and equipment from Syria to the Ukrainian battlefield, and previously these Russian units had already fought with the Ukrainians in Ukraine.
Russia attacked Ukraine, there is a long and bloody war going on and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have the right to destroy Russian military personnel anywhere in the world, and this article contains the words of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine Budanov, where he states exactly this. A. What are Russian troops doing in Syria, where there is a civil war?
Among other things, the Russians set up several recruitment centers there to send Syrian mercenaries to Ukraine. There, Syrian mercenaries are given Russian passports, and then they are mobilized into the Russian Armed Forces. Therefore, several times already among the prisoners captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces there were Syrians who declared that they had been deceived. They were told that they would not fight, but would do other duties, but upon arrival in Ukraine they were almost immediately sent to the front in Ukraine.