A British traitor fighting for Vladimir Putin’s Russia has gloated about killing Ukrainians and ‘burning all his bridges’ with his family.
Jay Fraser, 24, from Dunblane, in Stirlingshire, fled Scotland in August to take up arms for the despot’s army.
The former Tennent’s Brewery worker has claimed to have been on three deployments to fight alongside Kremlin forces and boasted about having ‘confirmed kills’.
‘I’ve never been injured,’ he bragged.
Fraser, who has a military patch of the ‘Soviet Mickey Mouse’ Cheburashka on his body armour, uses the callsign Celt.
He has been hailed as a hero by Putin’s mouthpiece propaganda news channels and says he wants to meet a Russian woman to marry as they ‘are much better looking’ than in his native Scotland.
The Scot has become a useful propaganda tool for the Russian despot’s war-promoters, claiming in one video from the frontline: ‘I believe this is a war not only between Russia and Ukraine, but also a war between Eastern and Western civilisation.’
According to the translation, he said: ‘Eastern civilisation is the correct one.’
Asked if he understood he was likely committing a crime back home by taking up arms for the Kremlin dictator.
‘I realise that,’ he said.
‘Yes, I realise there is no going back, but I never thought of starting a family in the West with all the new realities.
‘That’s why I burned all my bridges and came here.’
Talking to The Scottish Sun on Sunday, Fraser declared he had no intention of returning to Britain ‘nor any western aligned state’.
‘I fight for the things I believe in with all the weapons at my disposal, and I leave my opponents dead so I don’t get nailed to a cross or any other place,’ he rambled.
‘I am not moderate, and I shall try not ever to be.
‘If I recognise that the sacred flame within me has given way to a timid votive light, the least I could do is die.’
Fraser claimed to have had two ‘run-ins’ with police in Scotland but that he had never been charged.
In another video he said that he thought of going to war for Putin as a ‘game’ when asked about his family’s reaction back home, and whether his parents could be under pressure from the UK authorities.
‘I thought about it, but for me it is also important, and I hope that the game is worth it,’ he said.
He confessed: ‘Not all of my side of the family is on my side.
‘And I’m sure they won’t come here, no matter how much pressure the state puts on them.’
On their reaction, he said: ‘They didn’t take it very well that I was leaving the peace of Scotland to go to war in Russia.
‘But they also saw my determination that I was final in my decision and that no words could change my mind, so they accepted it.’
Fraser said he speaks ‘a little’ Russian after completing two nights on the frontline where some troops are treated as cannon fodder.
‘I’m very happy to be here. I’ve always been a man of books, more into theory,’ he said.
‘I’m glad to be directly involved.
‘It’s new emotions, new sensations for me.’
Asked what he felt fighting alongside Russians, he said: ‘I was very much welcomed.
‘I am very surprised by such a warm welcome, despite the fact that I am from a country that is extremely aggressive towards Russia.
‘I am happy to have such a welcome.’
He claimed to have read the famous Russian poet Lermontov, who had Scots roots.
‘I’ve read Lermontov, but I wouldn’t have thought he had anything to do with Scotland,’ said Fraser.