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Insiders Warn Notorious Foreign Rebels to Fight With Russia in Ukraine
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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, NigeriaMore than a hundred former Central African Republic (CAR) rebels taken by the infamous Wagner Groupwhich is run by one of President Vladimir Putins closest associatesto 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
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gab13by13
(21,323 posts)1. Malcolm Nance calls them "amateurs" "not very good."
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;
NoMoreRepugs
(9,417 posts)2. Central African rebels in the freezing weather... hmmm, let's see
how that plays out.
Xoan
(25,320 posts)3. Fertilizers
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)4. Sunflower food.
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?
One can hope.