Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
War attracts all manner of scoundrels -- for both sides.
| I can’t imagine that petty businessmen of this sort would make very good soldiers. |
[Regnum] American private military companies, with the participation of the country's authorities, are recruiting Mexican and Colombian drug dealers in US prisons to send to Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported on April 9.
“The United States is resorting to increasingly desperate methods in its attempts to turn the tide in the Ukrainian theater of operations, replenishing the ranks of demoralized Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters with a multinational rabble with a penchant for armed violence,” TASS quotes a report from the SVR press bureau.
The prisoners are promised a complete amnesty, but negotiations are difficult because the convicts do not want to cooperate with the US authorities without the “blessing” of the drug lords, the press bureau noted.
The first batch of recruits is planned to be sent to the territory of Ukraine in the summer of 2024, the report said. If this project is successful, the United States intends to expand the recruitment for sending to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to other countries, however, Washington’s plans to gain an advantage on the battlefield by influxing criminal mercenaries into Ukraine are doomed to failure, the SVR also stated.
“The prospect of another influx of foreign “soldiers of fortune” from among serial killers, drug addicts and rapists to the long-suffering lands of the Russian World is alarming. However, the Americans’ plans to gain a tactical advantage on the battlefield in this way are doomed to failure,” the report said.
As reported by Regnum news agency, earlier war correspondent Evgeniy Poddubny reported that Americans, Romanians and the French took part in the attack of Ukrainian forces on the Belgorod region. The military correspondent published a helmet-mounted video of a Ukrainian formation fighter, filmed while trying to enter the territory of the Belgorod region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have gathered additional groups of mercenaries from France, Georgia, as well as militants from the Ukrainian “Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK; a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) to Kharkov; they may be thrown into a new breakthrough in the Belgorod region, underground coordinator Sergei said on April 3 Lebedev.
During the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 5,962 foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported on March 14. In total, during the SVO, 13,387 foreign mercenaries arrived on the territory of Ukraine; most of all, mercenaries from Poland and Georgia were destroyed - 1,497 and 561, respectively.
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