And you can’t tell your fighter without a scorecard as there are fights on both sides with separate definitions.
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Well you can tell who is who by their patches, radio and phone intercepts, and POW interviews.
Also there is lots of info one Russian force make up, operations, and missions of the myriad of RGF, Naval and VKF regiments, units, BTGs, Battalions, and National Guard Separate entities available.
Of course it is impossible to tell much specific from TV or most written newspaper articles.
‘... there is lots of info...”
There are even satellite images on google of locations of some of the camps. But since these groups don’t fall under any recognized international description and are on a cash basis, switching sides for a perceived battle or two is not beyond their needs and they are generally sortie groups doing one thing at a time rather than an organized operation doing an advancement. Hit and run. And unfortunately with the thousands out there and the lack of coordination between all the groups of combatants, accidents, and sometimes on purposes, happen. Oops situations.
The Wagner Group, which started this thread, is not registered as a legal entity anywhere in the world. These mercenaries are even illegal under Russian law. Putin makes no claim to them if they are killed or captured and they don’t wear a patch. They are said to have offices in Saint Petersburg, Argentina, and Hong Kong. The company trains its personnel at a Russian MoD facility, Molkino, near the remote village of Molkin, Krasnodar Krai and the Russian government doesn’t claim them, but they supply them with such things as training locations, passports, and logistics. After joining they become spooks and no one knows who or where they are as all communications devices are taken away from them and issued when need arises. They came from the old Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU),
the 700th Independent Spetsnaz Detachment of the 2nd Independent Brigade and were first active in 2014. Two other groups like them are the Moran Security Group and the Hong Kong-based Slavonic Corps. They all operate about the same way. They are compared to the US organization Academi, the American security firm formerly known as Blackwater.
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