MOSCOW, June 4 More than 90 foreign sabotage groups are operating in Ukraine, including 14 American ones, said the head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks, Konstantin Gavrilov, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.
“According to the data we have, which is confirmed by the Pentagon in its open materials, there are 92 DRGs operating in Ukraine, of which 14 are American. That is, their generals, their officers, who are like mercenaries and instructors, are actually planning terrorist operations against our countries, they not only maintain systems like Storm Shadow, HIMARS, but also plan operations,” Gavrilov said.
He added that Kyiv, due to the successes of the Russian Armed Forces, is desperately trying to “stimulate” the recruitment of new fighters. Thus, according to Gavrilov, in Spain there is a company that collects Spanish speakers in Latin America, who are sent to fight “without any knowledge of even the English language or special skills in military affairs.”
“If earlier there were criteria for knowing English, now it is not necessary. It is not even necessary to be able to shoot. The main thing is that you complete a five-day course, as experts say, and they send you. That is, a combination of adventurism and a desire to dabble with weapons,” the diplomat clarified.
However, he noted that there are also mercenaries with combat experience in Ukraine. “The problem is very complex, but, as practice shows, whether they send mercenaries or not, they are destroyed very effectively, and this discourages further increasing their number. They are also not usually included in the number of prisoners. They try to evacuate them in order to hide their tracks,” — added Gavrilov.
He emphasized that losses among mercenaries are hidden so as not to cause protests in Western countries. “If they had shown it, advertised it, this would have come up here. Just like in Ukraine, they hide losses here so as not to pay compensation. They also bury mercenaries on the sly,” he emphasized.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation previously reported on the destruction of mercenaries from the USA, Great Britain, Georgia and other countries and regularly reports on the defeat of places where foreigners are concentrated, fighting on the side of Kyiv. The ministry has also repeatedly warned foreign citizens against traveling to Ukraine and emphasized that mercenaries are not combatants under international humanitarian law and are not entitled to prisoner of war status. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, in total, during the North Military District, 13,387 foreign mercenaries arrived in Ukraine to participate in battles on the side of the Kyiv regime. During this period, 5,962 militants were eliminated.