AP speculates that private players in the Russian Petro industry have financed large groups of contract fighters partially concealing them from the Russian Government.
Oil. Oil. Oil. Why don’t we just drill here, drill now. And let the towel heads drink and bathe in their own motion lotion.
yes, well, the little green men aren’t Russians at all; they’re mercenaries. Where have we heard that before?
‘ChVK’ or private military companies are more an annoyance than allies to the Russian military there.
These are actually illegal in Russia and mostly registered in offshores or working under guise of ‘ChOP’ or private security firms.
There is an article 359 in a Russian criminal code criminalizing any participation in non-government military organization other that home-defence militia.
Although there is a powerful lobby pushing to legalize it.