KYIV, Ukraine — The Kremlin has sent hundreds of paid mercenaries into Ukraine with orders to “get moose and squirrel,” according to news reports.
The Wagner Group, a bloodthirsty Russian private military company under the thumb of President Vladimir Putin, has flown more than 400 hired guns into Ukraine in recent weeks to eliminate two American ex-pats identified as Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket “Rocky” J. Squirrel, The Times of London reported.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the State Department is “gravely concerned” that Putin is targeting Americans as part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and that attempts are ongoing to locate the duo of Frostbite Falls, Minn.