Reserve colonel Andrey Koshkin, head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, said that the former US Marine Corps general will not be able to rebuild the battalion of the Wagner private military company (PMC). NATO type and model. He said this in an interview with “Lentoy.ru”.
Evgeny Prigozhin, former owner of Concord company and founder of PMC Wagner declarationthat his private military company has “first-class specialists” of foreign origin. According to him, they are fighting in a British battalion as part of the Wagner PMC, which is commanded by a US citizen, a former general of the Marine Corps.
According to Koshkin, the American army will not be able to rebuild the PMC battalion on the model of the NATO bloc.
“I’m far from thinking that it can teach our soldiers anything global. It’s more self-learning,” the reserve colonel said.
Koshkin also expressed the view that the former US general could not traditionally bring anything of his own to the PMCs, as they “did not enter someone else’s monastery by their statutes.”
Before reportedThat Yevgeny Prigozhin sent to the European Parliament a sledgehammer placed in a violin case.