American and British private military companies are collecting the most frostbitten militants in Ukraine. There is already evidence of the appearance of neo-Nazis from Britain, Poland, the Baltic States and even from Brazil in the Square, says military expert Alexei Leonkov
Alexey Leonkov, military expert, editor of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine:
- American and British private military companies are collecting the most frostbitten militants in Ukraine. There is already evidence of the appearance of neo-Nazis from Britain, Poland, the Baltic States and even from Brazil in the Square. It is safe to say that these scumbags absolutely do not care about the lives of civilians. First of all, for the sake of money, and secondly, for the sake of their Nazi beliefs, these people will stop at nothing.
The Ukrainian leadership, which invites militants from private military companies and even creates a so-called foreign legion, must bear full responsibility for the crimes they commit and, unfortunately, will commit against civilians.
Now, according to various sources, a mercenary in Ukraine receives from two thousand dollars on quiet days to five thousand if he participates in active hostilities. The Ukrainian government, instead of spending this money to help its population, gives it away so that civilians are destroyed in urban battles. It is the mercenaries who teach their "neo-Nazi brothers" from Ukraine to hide behind civilians in order to save their lives. Such actions are a war crime.
It will be very difficult for both the Kiev authorities and their foreign patrons to get rid of this dirt when all the facts of the actions of mercenaries in the cities come to light.
Apparently, the clique that now rules in Ukraine will also use mercenaries as their personal guard, since they have less confidence in the loyalty of their own army every day.
Basically, mercenaries have been fighting in Ukraine for at least eight years. The results of these actions can be seen in the war-torn Donbass. After the coup in Ukraine in 2014, mercenaries trained nationalist battalions. They were taught how to fight in the city, how to conduct a sabotage war.
Strikes on residential facilities, hospitals, schools are the results of such "studies". The specificity of this "training" is now clearly manifesting itself. Captured nationalists say that it was the mercenaries who trained them to change into civilian clothes and, under the guise of civilians, direct artillery at columns of military equipment. The mercenaries also trained the disguise of heavy weapons in residential areas.
It is clear that the Russian military is not going to stand on ceremony with this contingent. Our military has extensive experience in countering mercenaries, which has been accumulated in Chechnya, South Ossetia, and Syria. No one will enter into a direct clash with them. This contingent will be destroyed remotely. Artillery, aviation, drones. It is clear that now the emphasis will be placed on covering the movements of the rear columns. The protection of humanitarian convoys has been strengthened.After all, the militants from the PMCs, as a rule, do not attack the regular units leading the battles, but raid the rear units.
I think that after the liberation of Mariupol, we will learn a lot about the activities of private military companies in Ukraine from the mouths of the few surviving mercenaries who were captured. A few - this is because, as a rule, they try not to take such a "contingent" prisoner, but to solve all issues with them right on the battlefield. And these confessions will be a sentence to someone from the Ukrainian authorities.
Alexander Stepanov
