The Ukrainian intelligence service claims that Russia is recruiting mercenaries in a number of third world countries, including Somalia, Sierra Leone, Nepal, Syria, Cuba, and their nationals can enter Ukraine with the ** army as long as they sign an agreement with the Russian Ministry of Defense"Special military activities"。"Such an approach would be a better option for the invading country than to start a war from the territory of the Russian Federation.
It is a well-known fact that Russia recruited mercenaries from third world countries during the "special war", and the Ukrainian military also captured a lot of prisoners from Nepal and Sierra Leone, and there is even a lot of intelligence that shows that the foreign soldiers of the Russian military far exceed the "International Legion" of the Ukrainian armed forces.
According to Ukraine's official news agency, CNN reporters interviewed some Nepalese soldiers and their families who had returned from the front of the battlefield and concluded that about 15,000 Nepalis are now serving in the ** army, and the Russian Ministry of Defense has promised them a salary of no less than $2,000 a month, as well as Russian citizenship.
Earlier, Nepal announced that more than 200 of its own nationals were involved in Moscow's campaign against Ukraine"Special Military", resulting in the deaths of 13 Nepalese citizens and the capture of four by the Ukrainian military, but many Nepalese activists (such as Nepalese MP and former *** Governor Bimara Raj Bodjar) say this figure is grossly overestimated. Currently, 14,000-15,000 Nepalese nationals are serving in the Russian army. For nearly two weeks, some 2,000 families have sought help from an organization led by Kathmandu activist Kritu Bhandari to help find lost relatives or to return those who are still alive.
Whether or not the actual numbers are obscured, Nepal** has made it clear that it does not allow its own nationals to participate in the "special operation", and Syria**, led by Bashar al-Assad, is actively assisting the Russian Ministry of Defense in recruiting Syrians. Ukrainian intelligence released on February 14 a list of Syrian mercenaries recruited by the Russian Ministry of Defense, with 141 people on this list being Syrians.
The Ukrainian intelligence service also noted that the conscripted Syrian mercenaries are being trained in urban warfare, such as the airport in Aleppo near Kuveres, where the first batch of about 1,000 Syrian mercenaries who have completed the training will be transported from the Syrian Ohmymin airport to Russia, where Syrians will get Russian passports and sign an agreement with the Russian Ministry of Defense to join Ukraine in a "special military operation", because they know that the mortality rate in municipal wars is very high, especially in those caused by ** The army participates in the town war.
Some analysts speculate that the Assad authorities, in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Defense, to recruit Syrian mercenaries are largely motivated by political considerations, but more often by financial considerations, and that the Assad authorities are likely to "give the mercenaries to Russia": as Moscow and Tehran provide less and less help to them, and the region's economy is becoming more and more sluggish, Assad is also looking for ways to raise more money, not so long ago, on February 12, One million captives were seized in a Saudi military strike at the Hadisa crossing in Jordan, an armed group affiliated with Syria and financed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Ukrainian intelligence service not only recruits mercenaries in Syria, but also revealed that the Russian military is conducting training in Syria to train ** drone pilots and conduct training at the Shayrat airport, led by a Lebanese Allah veteran Kamal Abu who is well versed in this area. Sadiq (Kamal Abu Sadiq) for training, and at the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense has also called in from Syria, and Moscow intends to use them as drone pilots for Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has said so much about foreign mercenaries, so let's talk about the foreign soldiers in the Ukrainian Army who are called foreign mercenaries by Russia and its supporters. The interview was attended by Björn, a Danish volunteer who turned out to be a fisherman in the Faroe Islands and came to Ukraine after the war to join the "International Legion" under the Ukrainian Armed Forces, codenamed "Vikings".
According to Björn, the fighting between Russia and Ukraine is extremely tragic, similar to the use of unmanned "World War I" in World War I, due to the tragic fighting and rigorous training, many volunteers from abroad have withdrawn, just more than two months ago in the training, more than forty percent of the trainees failed to persevere, Bjorn himself lost 20 kilograms of weight in five weeks, and even if all are qualified, there are about 20% of volunteers who only do 2-5 hours of work, Whether they are retired special forces, retired soldiers, or retired soldiers, in short, this is a battle unlike anything that has ever been fought before.
Björn also talked about the ** army, among which there is the problem of lack of equipment. Although the army is young, many lack protective vests and steel helmets. People often send new soldiers to the front, let them go to death, let them go to death, and when they are tired, let those battle-hardened Russian soldiers go to war.
In addition, Björn also mentions that the war crimes of the ** army (perhaps conciliated, without going into details) will destroy everything.
Björn said the battle taught him how to value his life and his life instead of being a workaholic before the war. After the war, he also planned to take his children with him, and when the time came, he would take his children to see the outbreak in Iceland; Björn also expressed his gratitude to the Ukrainian people he wanted to protect, who provided them with a good living environment, where they could enjoy hot coffee, food and sweets, and who "felt respected and not alone." ”