The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, despite the loud statements, cannot take control of PVC - ISW

The analysts of the institute refer to the Russian opposition edition "Dosie", according to which, the ancient associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin Arkady Rothenberg and the Russian State Bank of VTB provided the PEC "Convoy" with more than 300 million rubles from the end of 2022. In addition, the "convoy" was financed by 109. 5 million rubles Russian energy enterprises "Promresurs" and "KOAL Trading", although the profit of each of them does not correspond to the amount of donations.

It is also reported that the occupation head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov politically supports the Convoy PEC. In November 2022, PEC announced a recruitment for war against Ukraine. The personnel "Convoy" signed contracts either directly with the PVC or with the Russian 150th Motorized Squad, although it does not subordinate to it and has its own responsibility area in Ukraine and the command staff. The location of the Konoe PEC is occupied Crimea, superior.

Now the mercenaries of the company are fighting in the Kherson direction, and before that they defended Russian lines of logistical support on the highway Melitopol-Jankoy. As of the summer of 2023, there are 400 people who receive a salary of 200-300 thousand rubles ($ 2030-3045) a month in the Convoy PEC "Convoy". "Permanent private financial and political support for the Convoy PEC and its further activity in Ukraine separately from the team structure of the Mos ISW analysts.

The founder of Konstantin Pikalov, Konstantin Pikalov, was previously associated with Wagner PEC and Russia. We will remind that the Armed Forces caused a massive blow to the positions of the Russian Federation near Mariupol and liquidated the colonel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Viktor Kovalev. According to unconfirmed information, Colonel Kovalev was on the territory of the command point in the sanatorium "Wave".