Russland vs. Ukraine

[Schneemann]

Ist der Ruf schon ruiniert...nun, dann kann es ja nicht schaden, noch ein paar zugedröhnte Stammeskrieger oder machetenschwingende Kindersoldaten zu rekrutieren, vielleicht praktizieren sie ja auch nur rituellen Kannibalismus. Und vielleicht kann man als professionelle Berater noch Joshua Blahyi oder Joseph Kony gewinnen, das würde die Moral der Russen in der Ukraine sicherlich massiv anheben...

Putin’s Prison Recruiting Scheme Takes a Big, Desperate Turn

Russian efforts to recruit accused rapists and murderers for Vladimir Putin’s floundering war is now going global, two insiders revealed to The Daily Beast. [...]

ABUJA, Nigeria—Russia’s infamous Wagner Group is freeing hardened rebels held in jail cells in the Central African Republic and deploying them overseas, including in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, two senior military officers in CAR told The Daily Beast.

According to the sources in CAR, where armed rebels have controlled large parts of the country for about a decade, dozens of men held in military and police custody for crimes such as rape and murder are now being recruited into Wagner’s local wing, which includes hundreds of fighters commonly referred to as “Black Russians.” Many of the recruits, the officers said, are rebels the military consider to be terrorists because of their unlawful use of violence and intimidation against civilians and armed forces in pursuit of political aims. “Since October, they [Wagner paramilitaries] have been walking into military and police cells and releasing rebels, including those held for attacking Bokolobo village [in southern CAR] in May and for raping women and girls,” an officer who works at the military headquarters in CAR’s capital, Bangui, told The Daily Beast. “Nobody can stop them because the government has given them so much power to act the way they want.” [...]

“They [Wagner] said they needed urgent manpower in Mali and Ukraine,” the officer, who works with CAR’s army, told The Daily Beast. “I think more than 20 people we’ve been holding [for very serious crimes] have been released.” [...] Among the prisoners released by Russian mercenaries is a notorious fighter from the Union for Peace (UPC) rebel group known by his colleagues as Mohammed, according to a former UPC member. The released rebel fighter is believed to have been involved in the Bokolobo attack in May. He allegedly joined Wagner’s local unit in late October and is now among the dozens of Black Russians believed to have been deployed to Ukraine.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-gro...in-ukraine

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