Are Wagner PMC Militants Training Lukashists Before Ukrainian 'Business Trips'?
- 18.08.2022, 13:57
That is their purpose to visit Minsk.
A reader of the Charter97.org website reported that the Russian PMC Wagner members arrived in Belarus. They will allegedly train instructors for the GardService security company, which is associated with Lukashenka's Administration:
— Militants of the Russian private military company will share combat experience gained in Syria, Ukraine and African countries for 3-4 weeks.
The instructors will be those who have passed the internal selection among all employees (physical, and psychological training, but the main selection criterion was to confirm the candidate's commitment to Lukashenka's regime).
A reader who works for the security company was not selected:
— I was told that I did not pass on political grounds because of "slick" answers.
The source of zerkalo.io claims that both instructors and ordinary employees are now being trained.
— They teach them to sweep buildings, train assault operations in urban environments, and there is also engineering training. — They brought a lot of other weapons to us (not the kind that employees usually work with - Ed.). Now we are training with heavier weapons: rocket-propelled grenades (RPG), automatic grenade launchers (AGS), and Kalashnikov automatic rifles. A lot of time is devoted to tactical medicine. Now the company is almost not engaged in the protection of facilities but is intensively engaged in military training.
In total, according to the source, at the moment the company employs several hundred people - up to 500.
— At the level of rumours, it is known that the staff of the company will grow, also they are going to purchase heavier weapons. I do not know why the assault unit of the Wagner PMC came to train "guards" and not units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. As the final goal of this whole event.
The source of the publication does not know whether the GardService employees are going through this training for the war in Ukraine. According to him, there is no information about this:
— The management doesn't explain anything. It sidesteps the issue. They say this is done to improve our skills. Those who successfully complete the course are promised a good salary in the future - 10,000 rubles. There are rumours that we will go on business trips. I think this is all for some reason: instructors, training, weapons, business trips, high salaries and so on.