The video is 2 Americans who joined the International Legion in Ukraine. Those are not mercenaries. They are under the direction of the Ukrainian military. If they receive any pay, it is no more than any other regular soldier of equal rank. Most of them financed their own equipment and travel to get there.
There is a month-long waiting list to join. There are about 4,000 international volunteers in Ukraine.
Russia is using mercenaries. The Wagners are not under military command, and they make more money than regular Russian Forces. They get bonuses and bounties, and fighting for personal gain is what defines a mercenary.
The pictures of the tatted up neo-nazis are not the Americans that were captured. Those are just a gratuitous insertion, purpose is to create the impression that the captured Americans are neo-nazis.
The OP does a pretty good nazi imitation himself, with his steady stream of anti-semitism, lol.
Yesterday these POW's were working for Hunter Biden's biolab in Kharkiv, today they are Ukrainian intelligence....
According to non-Russian accounts- They were part of a small squad that ran into a Russian advance north of Kharkiv. (The US/UK part of the International Legion has been fighting around Kharkiv for at least a month). They took out a BMP with an RPG, but the structure they were in was hit by a T-72, which then hit a mine.
Everyone bugged out, but the two Americans were knocked out, or got separated in the confusion. When the Ukrainians went back to look for them or retrieve their bodies, they couldn't find them and assumed they were captured.
The filming of them for propaganda purposes and the coerced statements is a war crime, and posting the video might even be against US law, I don't know. I wonder how long it will last on Youtube...