RUSSIAN state media has hailed the British mercenaries fighting for the Kremlin as "heroes".
President Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine went into overdrive after the Mirror identified Ben Stimson, 48, and Aiden Minnis, 37, as the first Brits fighting with Russia in Ukraine.
The pair, both former drug addicts and convicted criminals, were used to ramp up the information war.
Some mocked the reaction to them in Britain, with Moscow paper Komsomolskaya Pravda claiming they had "caused hysteria" here.
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