Posted on 04/20/2022 1:13:32 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Nearly 8,000 mercenaries from the notorious Wagner Group have been deployed by Russia in Ukraine to boost Vladimir Putin's flagging invasion, but have suffered heavy casualties, British MPs have been told.
Giving evidence to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Christo Grozev, executive director of the Bellingcat investigative website, said 3,000 members of the private military company (PMC) were thought to have been killed on the battlefield.
The shadowy group - which has been linked to a string of killings, rapes and war crimes around the world - is known as Putin's private army which carries out his dirty work at an arm's length from the state, while giving him plausible deniability.
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Your special operation is mass murder.
Not my special operation, not my monkeys.
Sleens, spleens, exploding spleens everywhere.
Absolutely rabid over your "team".
It's not your circus and not your monkeys, either.
MNJohnnie has been exactly right and has exposed the cultists here.
The dude has pinwheels-for-eyes.
Who knows what the truth really is.
But if this is only half true, it gives me a warm feeling in my heart.
Who knows what the truth really is.
But if this is only half true, it gives me a warm feeling in my heart.
‘... 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.
wy69
“...nothing stops it from treating them as mercs.”
Or criminals. Either one in that type of atmosphere is shot on site anyway.
wy69
I, like most, feel that mass murder is a crime. Your boy Putin will face judgement.
Such a smart insult, you had to say it twice.
they are getting jacked up at the same rate as the rest of the Russian forces, if not more so.
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Good news then!
click on the pic for the latest from Ukraine commander Serhiy Volyna in Mariupol.
From what I have deduced, the term “Nazi” is being equated to patriot. Those who love their country and willing to give their lives defending it are being called “Nazi” by those who want to denigrate Ukraine. Frankly, I admire the Ukrainian grit in taking on one of the strongest and fiercest armies on the globe.
They're a passionate bunch...
Ping!
I’m not surprised there are Ukrainian Nazi’s fighting for Ukraine. The Ukrainians were good Nazi’s who had no problem exterminating Jews for Hitler. The current Nazi’s are following in their grandfather’s and great grandfather’s footsteps.
Ok, I’ve heard of a one-town whore but never a one-tank whore. I guess it’s a cultural thing.
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