In 2023 the unit was subordinated to Putin’s party. Espanola changed its status to a private military company. The recruitment is financed with party funds, adds HUR.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, this private military company recruits hooligans and people with various radical views, including sympathizers of Nazi ideology. Ordinary inhabitants of poor regions of Russia and temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories are also recruited.
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Recruitment points located in the occupied Ukrainian territories offer 220,000 people for direct participation in combat operations against Ukraine. rubles per month (about 9.5 thousand PLN). The contract should be signed for at least six months, HUR says.
Mercenaries are also promised compensation, for example 1 million rubles (approximately PLN 43,000) in case of minor injuries, 5 million rubles (approximately PLN 215,000) in case of death.
HUR estimates that for most new mercenaries, the first fight becomes a “one-way ticket.” People who die or are seriously injured are not taken from the battlefield, they are listed as “missing” in the registers, and their relatives receive no compensation.
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