Mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war and the siege of Kiev. Lucio Martino’s analysis (Guarini Institute for Public Affairs at John Cabot University)
“The impression is that this war is turning into something very reminiscent of the Spanish war of the 1930s , which attracts forces like a magnet from all over Europe. The problem is that the Second World War followed the Spanish War ”. This is Professor’s opinion. Lucio Martino , of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs at John Cabot University. Sending Syrian troops against Kiev
Russia, which has already committed about 200,000 men to Ukraine, is about to send irregular troops to Kiev, of men arriving from Syria paid to fight for Moscow. This was confirmed by President Vladimir Putin himself and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu who spoke of “volunteers” and not of salaried fighters. “If you see that there are people who voluntarily want to help the separatists in eastern Ukraine, then you have to meet them halfway and help them move to the combat zones,” Putin told his minister. The accusation of President Zelensky
Ukrainian President Zelensky also feared the risk of sending mercenary forces. “They will come to kill in a foreign land,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message. The head of state then drew a parallel between the destruction of Syria and what the Russian army is now doing in the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Kharkiv, Okhtyrka and Chernihiv, Volnovakha and Izyum. According to Zelensky, this is how Moscow treats “Russian-speaking people, whose protection has been said so much in Moscow”, that is, with missiles, aerial bombs and artillery. The eve of the attack on Kiev and the role of mercenaries
The deployment of mercenary troops can be read as the eve of the attack on Kiev. “Apparently the Russians have decided not to enter the city with regular forces or armored forcesbut to enter with the infantry with these 16 thousand Syrian volunteers / mercenaries to which we must also add what remains of their paratroop forces – explained Lucio Martino who spoke during the Rete 4 special -. Because it seems that Russian paratroopers, who have so far suffered heavy losses, are also concentrating on the outskirts of Kiev, so I imagine that in the next few days we will be able to witness an entry of infantry forces into the city while the same city is attacked by protected artillery fire from the tanks all around “.The foreign legion for Ukraine
Prof. Martino compares the war in Ukraine to the war in Spain because there is a “ foreign legion that is coagulating in Ukraine . In addition to the 16,000 Syrians fighting on the side of the Russians, on the side of the Ukrainians there is an entire unit that seems to be made up of Americans, another by British Canadians and a completely international one where Azerbaijani men fight with Brazilian Portuguese and opposing Chechens. to the Russians “. The widening of the conflict and the entry of non-regular forces risk causing the fighting to slide towards barbarism . “The barbarism is already there – adds prof. Martino -. They are already fighting hand to hand. In Mariupol there have been bloody fights that have not been seen for 70 years ”. The relationship between Russia and Syria
Russia entered the Syrian theater of war in autumn 2015 , officially with the aim of fighting the terrorism of the Islamic State and supporting the power system of Damascus, which has been embodied in the Asad family for decades. But Russia has a long-standing diplomatic relationship with Syria that has lasted for at least 50 years. The intervention of Russia in support of Damascus allowed Bashar al Assad to continue to govern Syria after eleven years of armed conflict and to be confirmed as head of state at least until the next elections in 2028. The mercenaries seen by General Camporini
The arrival of these reinforcements indicates two things: 1) that the initial plans were badly calibrated; 2) that the forces available on the Russian side are not sufficient: a sign of weakness rather than strength, General Vincenzo Camporini remarked to Corriere della sera. The recruitment of “Syrian” troops against Kiev
On February 16, the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu went to Syria and after visiting Syrian President Bashar al Assad in Damascus, Shoigu was accompanied by senior Russian military cadres in Syria at the Ḥumaymim base, the Moscow military operations headquarters along NATO’s southern flank. For days Russia has been givingstart of the recruitment of an unspecified number of young and old who are ready, for a fee in dollars, to be sent to Ukraine to fight alongside the Russian military. According to military analysts, the Syrian fighters who could be sent to Ukraine do not belong to the regular army of Damascus , but to a plethora of militias, not necessarily controlled by the government, created in recent years by the same Russian cadres in Syria and by warlords. local, affiliated with the Moscow forces. Among these are the former militiamen of the dissolved Bustan, a paramilitary organization created in recent years by Rami Makhluf, cousin of the disgraced President Assad, the fighters of the fifth Syrian army corps, organized and financed by Russia and operating in several theaters of the Syrian war. Contracts for Syrian soldiers
According to some sources, the Russian emissaries, including the militiamen of the Wagner Group, have offered the Syrian soldiers a contract worth a thousand dollars a month , for a continuous commitment in Ukraine for seven months. Others reported more modest deals: $ 400 a month, with no commitment to stay long at the front.

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