UK Intelligence: Redut PMC replaces Wagnerites, helping Russia to avoid mobilisation
Pravda Ukraine
The UK Intelligence has revealed the activities of the Redut private military company, which actually replaced Wagner Group in the combat zone in Ukraine.
Source: European Pravda reports this is stated in the intelligence review of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) on 16 October.
Details: The department noted that the Redut PMC is recruiting mercenaries under the guise of “volunteers”, including former Wagnerites.
The group is controlled and financed by the GRU, the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate).
Since the beginning of the invasion, the Redut has participated in combat operations in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Luhansk Oblasts. The group may now consist of more than 7,000 people, the intelligence said.
Currently, the Redut is one of the PMCs and volunteer units that the Russian Ministry of Defence has been using to strengthen the regular troops.
The UK Intelligence suggests that recruiting mercenaries into so-called “volunteer” units helps Russia avoid declaring mobilisation, which is considered an unpopular move.
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 16 October 2023.
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In a previous review, UK Intelligence reported that the Armed Forces are capable of striking the new railway branch to Mariupol, which is currently being built by the Russian Federation in the occupied Ukrainian territories.
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