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babylonsister

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Thu Mar 24, 2022, 08:31 AM Mar 2022

Insiders Warn Notorious Foreign Rebels to Fight With Russia in Ukraine



Insiders Warn Notorious Foreign Rebels to Fight With Russia in Ukraine
MAKING MATTERS WORSE
Dozens of ex-rebels in a group that has been accused of rape and torture in the Central African Republic are being trained to fight in Ukraine, officials told The Daily Beast.
Philip Obaji Jr.
Published Mar. 24, 2022 4:50AM ET


ABUJA, Nigeria—More than a hundred former Central African Republic (CAR) rebels taken by the infamous Wagner Group—which is run by one of President Vladimir Putin’s closest associates—to Russia last month for military training are set to fight in Ukraine, three government officials told The Daily Beast.

According to two senior military officers and a defense ministry official in CAR, more than 200 so-called former rebels, who worked for the Union for Peace (UPC) militant group and were also part of a coalition of fighters of major rebel groups created in 2020 to disrupt a Central African general election, traveled to Moscow in early February for military training that was originally expected to last for weeks at a Wagner camp.

Of the number that traveled, according to the officials, only 100 returned to CAR at the start of March while the rest remained in Russia for deployment in Ukraine.

“The initial plan, from what we [the CAR military] were told, was that these former rebels will receive combat training, including how to handle Russian-made weapons, and then return home before being deployed to places where Russian instructors work,” an officer, who works at the military headquarters in the CAR capital, Bangui, told The Daily Beast. “Later, we heard that some will stay back in Moscow and later head for Ukraine.”


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Insiders Warn Notorious Foreign Rebels to Fight With Russia in Ukraine (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2022 OP
Malcolm Nance calls them "amateurs" "not very good." gab13by13 Mar 2022 #1
Central African rebels in the freezing weather... hmmm, let's see NoMoreRepugs Mar 2022 #2
Fertilizers Xoan Mar 2022 #3
Sunflower food. ret5hd Mar 2022 #4
Might we be able to take them all out on the same battle field without setting foot in the region? Samrob Mar 2022 #5

gab13by13

(21,323 posts)
1. Malcolm Nance calls them "amateurs" "not very good."
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 08:53 AM
Mar 2022

According to Nance it's why Ukraine just had a 36 hour curfew, to weed these guys out who have invaded the civilian population.

Listen to Malcolm in the video;

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
5. Might we be able to take them all out on the same battle field without setting foot in the region?
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 09:14 AM
Mar 2022

One can hope.

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