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.
400 US commandos help Kiev in its military offensive in east Ukraine - reports
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.
US pays $8 million a month to have its private armies deployed in Ukraine - British press
by Andrey Fedyashin
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 companiesBlackwater and Greystoneare are mentioned increasingly often. Blackwateris actually doesn't exist. It has changed its name several times and is now calledAcademi. 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.
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