Head of the Lugansk People's Republic Leonid PasechnikLUGANSK, January 31 outright mercenaries, in recent days there are more of them, the head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Earlier, the LPR said that there were foreign mercenaries in the Donbass, including those from the American private military company Academi, formerly known as Blackwater.
"This is not a secret at all, it is official data that hundreds of foreign instructors from NATO countries are on a rotational basis on the territory of Ukraine… In addition, frank mercenaries also arrive in Ukraine under the guise of instructors", Pasechnik said .
The head of the LPR clarified that the Yavoriv training ground in the Lvov region is only listed as Ukrainian, but he, and not only him, has long been transferred to the control of foreign instructors, «who train there fighters and junior command personnel of special operations forces, that is, intelligence officers and saboteurs.» When they say that a thousand installations are delivered to the country, and there are 200 instructors for them to teach how to use them, do you really think that they only came to teach and are not narrow specialists from military companies who are fluent in these weapons even in the event of a military escalation Will it be used on the line of contact? And I'll tell you that it's not at all a fact that these mercenary instructors will pay at least some attention to the orders of Ukrainian commanders. They have their own employers and their own tasks,» Pasechnik explained. added that in recent days there has been information that quite a lot of fighters appear in Severodonetsk, Shchastia and Popasna controlled by Kiev in the Donbass, “speaking foreign languages, dressed in foreign camouflage and behaving rather provocatively.” Since 2014, NATO countries led by the United States have been supplying weapons to Ukraine and training its military, which directly violates the Minsk agreements and negatively affects the settlement in Donbass. In addition to the Americans, Great Britain, Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, and Estonia participate in deliveries totaling billions of dollars. The United States supplied Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missile systems, patrol boats, sniper rifles and counter-battery radar stations, Great Britain — NLAW anti-tank grenade launchers, Turkey — Bayraktar TB2 attack drones. Ukraine and the UK have signed a memorandum that provides for the joint design and construction of warships on the territory of the two countries and the construction of two bases for the Ukrainian Navy. meat grinder». Expert on British mercenaries in Donbass