Forcing children to swear Putin and the ROC: Cossacks of the Russian Federation wash brains in the occupied territories (video)
The idea of the Cossacks has been operated since 2014 during the occupation of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and even before the emergence of various private military companies, it was an attempt of Russian special services to exercise their influence through similar paramilitary structures. To put it bluntly, these were the first PVCs, said military expert Dmitry Snegirev in an interview with focus.
For example, according to the expert, in 1992 the Russian Federation used Cossacks in Transnistria, when General Alexander Lebed hesitated to use the regular army of the Russian Federation. In the occupied areas of Georgia (in Ossetia), similar detachments appeared in 2008, as well as the Cossacks participated in the first Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
"Given the fact that, unlike the Ukrainian Cossacks, Russian has a clear hierarchy subordinate to Putin, the Cossacks of the Russian Federation are used at the moment of hidden mobilization," says the expert. "This is another lever of influence and resource of supply of so -called volunteers.
" According to Dmitry Snegirev, several units of the so -called Don battalion have been recorded in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which until recently performed gendarmes, police functions, but now they have been transferred to the line of combat. Also, according to the expert, it is already known about the presence on the front of the units of Transbaikal Cossacks and the Kuban Cossacks.
That is, Putin does his best to attract such forces to war with Ukraine outside the official mobilization. "Unfortunately, unlike our" harsh "Cossacks in the Russians, all this was strictly controlled by both the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and special services," emphasizes Dmitry Snegirev. - This is in Ukraine the "faithful Cossacks" could act as a "fifth column" There are many presence in Ukraine and such examples.
" And the Russian Cossacks from the early years attracts students to their ranks, the expert notes. For example, in the occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk region in Starobil and Swativ district and in Lugansk young Ukrainians 10-12 years are forced to take the oath of "Cossack" for allegiance of Putin and the ROC. Thus, according to the expert, there is an aggressive pro -Russian agitation, brain flushing in children and the basics of paramilitary structures or volunteers are laid.
Also in the occupied territories there are school camps under the leadership of the ROC and very serious, notes the specialist. At least three such camps, according to Dmitry Snegirev, are given the skills of sniper business, blasting and handling firearms. Earlier, Focus said that at the festival in the Russian Federation, children were raised "patriotism" by offering to shoot on targets with Zelensky and Biden.