This article also gives links which further testify to the presence of English-speaking forces in Ukraine, something that is denied by US officials.
From Kevin Hester --
Apparently, the US pays $8 million a month to have its private armies deployed in Ukraine
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_10/US-pays-8-million-a-month-to-have-its-private-armies-deployed-in-Ukraine-British-press-2344/
From Kevin Hester --
The Blackwaterand Greystone units for large-scale operations normally constitute up to 100 to 300 people. This means six hit squads have already been flown to Ukraine. The soldiers are paid 300 to 1,500 dollars per day. According to the British press, the US pays 8 million dollars a month to have its private armies deployed in Ukraine.
According to retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Russian security service, Andrei Popov, it is pretty difficult to identify Greystone or Blackwater mercenaries during an operation. They are normally made to look like local police or security service units.
"They are currently armed as the security service troops they are passing themselves off as. They carry Kalashnikov sub-machineguns and Makarov pistols, as well as our bulletproof vests. But they use closed communications channels, and that's how they can be recognized as mercenaries. They are trained just as any task force, but are absolutely unscrupulous. They have no idea of human feelings, that’s why they are used for bloody suppressions of local protests."
The US may also have recruited former task force soldiers, police officer or Marines of various nationalities for a specific operation, which looks like a private foreign legion.
According to retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Russian security service, Andrei Popov, it is pretty difficult to identify Greystone or Blackwater mercenaries during an operation. They are normally made to look like local police or security service units.
"They are currently armed as the security service troops they are passing themselves off as. They carry Kalashnikov sub-machineguns and Makarov pistols, as well as our bulletproof vests. But they use closed communications channels, and that's how they can be recognized as mercenaries. They are trained just as any task force, but are absolutely unscrupulous. They have no idea of human feelings, that’s why they are used for bloody suppressions of local protests."
The US may also have recruited former task force soldiers, police officer or Marines of various nationalities for a specific operation, which looks like a private foreign legion.
Donetsk
People's Republic has evidence that Kiev uses foreign mercenaries
The
authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic claim
to have evidence that Kiev recruits foreign mercenaries to
conduct the special operation in the south-east, Prime Minister of
the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Borodai said in an interview
with RIA Novosti.
"We
hear the English language on the air (radio communications
interception), we have seen lists (of people), who were captured in
the airport. Judging by the names, the people put down for allowances
are obviously of foreign origin. They are Anglo-Saxon. It is not
clear - American or Britons. They have snipers; and good ones. Their
manners, their weapons make it easy to define them as foreigners…They
are clearly not Ukrainian military," said Borodai.
On
Monday, May 26, there were battles between militiamen and Ukrainian
law enforcers, who used military air power in Donetsk, in the
vicinities of the airport and railway station. DPR fighters seized
the airport building but, after that, were dislodged. Currently,
the airport is under the full control of the Ukrainian military.
According to some information, the headquarters of the military
operation launched in the city moved there.
According
to Borodai, Kiev "could hire foreign private military
companies." "I'm not talking about a foreign intervention.
The world market for such specialists is wide," said the Prime
Minister of the DPR. He says this information was confirmed by the
Ukrainian military. "Those who graduated from Ukrainian military
academies, who served in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces, are
now fighting on the side of the DPR. There are ties between our guys
and our enemies. There are people who do not want war and don't want
to kill their brothers… They speak with us on the telephone and on
walkie-talkies. They say it themselves. They say: guys, we are sorry,
we don't control the situation, we're not commanders," said
Borodai.
Earlier
Sergei Lavrov, head of Russia's Foreign Ministry, supposed that
information about Western, primarily American, mercenaries fighting
in Ukraine might be true. "We have a very strong suspicion that
this may be true... We (Moscow) would like to confirm whether it is
true or not," he said in an interview with the Bloomberg TV
channel.
Since
mid-April, the Kiev authorities have carried out an operation in the
East of Ukraine aimed at suppressing the protest movement, which
emerged in response to the changeover of power, which had occurred in
the country on February 22 after several days of clashes in central
Kiev and had bore many signs of a coup.
About
400 elite commandos from a notorious US private security firm,
Greystone Limited, the latest renaming of the former private CIA army
Blackwater/Academi, are involved in a punitive operation mounted by
Ukraine’s junta government against federalization supporters in
eastern Ukraine, the German Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on
Sunday.
According
to the newspaper, Greystone/Academi mercenaries participated in
attacks against federalization supporters near Slavyansk. So far,
it’s unclear who hired them.
In
April 29, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) informed the
Angela Merkel government about Academi commandos’ involvement in
Kiev’s military operations in eastern Ukraine.
Academi,
former Blackwater (renamed in 2009), gained notoriety for the killing
of civilians in Iraq, arms smuggling and other crimes, TASS reports.
According
to reports from Donetsk, another group of US mercenaries has landed
at the local airport, mercenaries that the 'Maidan'-approved
government in Kiev is going to use for a mop-up operation in the
region.
Deputy
Chief of People's
Self-Defence
of
Donbass,
Sergei Tsyplakov, claims that 100 "soldiers of fortune"
have arrived this time. Judging by US and UK press reports, the
overall strength of the ground force that the Kiev-based government
will send to the South-East of Ukraine makes up 1,800.
The
US private military companies Blackwater
and Greystoneare
are mentioned increasingly often. Blackwateris
actually doesn't exist. It has changed its name several times and is
now called Academi.
It's the biggest private army of the world. Blackwater
is one of its subdivisions. 90 percent of orders for both companies
come from the US Department of State, the Pentagon and even the White
House. They can collect from 5,000 to 10,000 "soldiers of
fortune" under their standards.
Tiffany
Anderson of Greystonesaid
on April 10th the organization has no soldiers deployed in the east
or south of Ukraine. But this kind of denial is quite common for
private armies, so hardly anyone will take it seriously.
The
founder of Blackwater,Erik
Prince has told ABC television that they normally remain in close
contact with the State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon, so it's
perfectly normal to remain super secretive.
Late
last year, Prince published a book, Civilian
Warriors. The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the
War on Terror.
According to what he writes, US agencies always ask them to do some
job in far-away countries. "Soldiers of fortune" do that
job, without commenting on it ever after. "The job we do is very
serious, so no one should better know about it," Erik Prince
says.
Journalists
asked him to explain his statement that President Obama is perfectly
aware of what private armies in the US government's service do.
"You
claim in your book that your ties with President Obama are stronger
than he will ever agree to admit. Just what does that mean?" the
journalists asked.
"This
means we are involved in the effort to carry out some key programmes
that he sees as ones of vital importance to the United States,"
he replied.
The
Blackwaterand
Greystone
units for large-scale operations normally constitute up to 100 to 300
people. This means six hit squads have already been flown to Ukraine.
The soldiers are paid 300 to 1,500 dollars per day. According to the
British press, the US pays 8 million dollars a month to have its
private armies deployed in Ukraine.
According
to retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Russian security service,
Andrei Popov, it is pretty difficult to identify Greystone
or Blackwater
mercenaries during an operation. They are normally made to look like
local police or security service units.
"They
are currently armed as the security service troops they are passing
themselves off as. They carry Kalashnikov sub-machineguns and Makarov
pistols, as well as our bulletproof vests. But they use closed
communications channels, and that's how they can be recognized as
mercenaries. They are trained just as any task force, but are
absolutely unscrupulous.
They
have no idea of human feelings, that’s why they are used for bloody
suppressions of local protests."
The
US may also have recruited former task force soldiers, police officer
or Marines of various nationalities for a specific operation, which
looks like a private foreign legion.
29
May, 2014
About 300 Ukrainian mercenaries that fought in Syria on the side of the opposition are involved in punitive operations by security forces in the south-east of Ukraine. "According to current
data, approximately 300 Ukrainian mercenaries, who fought in the
ranks of the previously irreconcilable Syrian opposition against the
regime of Bashar al-Assad in March - April, returned to Ukraine and
joined the radical Right Sector's battalion, "taking part
in punitive operations Ukrainian security
forces in the south-east of the country, "- said a source in the
General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
According
to him, the mercenaries - natives of the western regions of Ukraine,
among them are Special Forces soldiers and snipers - known for their cruelty,
- participated in
particular military operations against federal forces in the North
Caucasus.
Earlier
the participation in the operation of American and
Polish mercenaries was reportd. The Ukrainian side denied their involvement in
military actions in the southeast, but confirmation of this
information came also from the Western media, as well as various militias
conducting radio frequency noted opponent talks in English.
The
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow insists on
investigation of reports of the involvement of the U.S. private military
organization Greystone in events in Ukraine, as well as the
discovery of a warehouse of American weapons on the territory of the republic
Right
Sector 'looting, attacking citizens' in eastern Ukraine - Donbass
battalion commander
Right
Sector units are obstructing efforts to restore order in eastern
Ukraine, said Semyon Semenchenko, commander of the "Donbass"
territorial voluntary battalion, Interfax reports
1
June, 2014
"In
fact, the Right Sector has not been involved in the fighting. But it
has spent two months looting, attacking citizens and engaging in
extortion. They can only deal with civilians, or with the scared
police. They won't cope with a real enemy," Semenchenko told
reporters on Independence Square in Kiev on Sunday when asked to
speak about the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
He
said the Right Sector, active in the eastern regions, is operating in
collusion with the local crime chiefs who finance them. "They
are re-shaping the local market of illegal drugs in cooperation with
local bandits, they collect metal at dump sites and raid slot halls
in the interests of competitors. What they are doing has nothing to
do with fighting," Semenchenko said.
A
spokesman for the Donbass battalion said that Semenchenko had arrived
at Independence Square to recruit fighters for his battalion
Bild
am Sonntag: 400 elite US commandos help Kiev in Ukraine
11
May, 2014
About
400 elite commandos of a notorious US private security firm, Academi,
are involved in a punitive operation mounted by Ukraine's new
government against federalization supporters in eastern Ukraine, the
German Bild
am Sonntag
newspaper reported on Sunday.
According
to the newspaper, Academi mercenaries participate in attacks against
federalization supporters near Slavyansk. So far, it's unclear who
hired them.
On
April 29, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) informed the
Angela Merkel government about Academi commandos' involvement in
Kiev's military operations in eastern Ukraine.
Academi,
former Blackwater (renamed in 2009), gained notoriety for killings of
civilians in Iraq, arms smuggling and other crimes, TASS reports.
Media
reports claiming that the Ukrainian leadership wants to recruit
personnel from private foreign military companies "in order to
maintain law and order" may suggest that the Kiev regime wants
to suppress civil protest and discontent, the Russian Foreign
Ministry said.
Private
military company will be in charge of suppressing protest movements
in Eastern Ukraine, said a source in the country's Security Service.
According to him, the name of the company is Greystone Limited.
According
to a source cited by ITAR-TASS, Ukrainian authorities believe that
the Security Service is not able to suppress the protest mood and
neutralize the leaders and activists of the pro-Russian movement in
the eastern regions. In particular, the source said, the acting
president Alexander Turchinov shares this opinion. "Therefore it
was decided to attract foreign mercenaries, who will serve as
political police and state security protection, " said the
representative of the Security Service.
According
to publicly available information Greystone Limited is a structural
part of Blackwater, that was later renamed into Academi. According to
military experts, the company is associated with the CIA and the US
Defense Department. Its employees participated in the war in
Afghanistan after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, the
company has appeared in Iraq and became involved in training the new
Iraqi armed forces and police, as well as support of the occupation
forces.
Source:
The Voice of Russia
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