Based on about two thousand profiles of mercenaries of the Russian semi-legal private military company "Wagner", it was possible to draw up a typical portrait of a Russian militant who took part in the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in the Donbass, and then in combat operations in Syria.

This is reported by the Russian edition of "Fontanka", which managed to access the internal documentation of PMC "Wagner".

Thus, according to information processed by journalists, a typical Russian fighter is a man aged 35 to 40 who was born, most likely, in the traditionally "Cossack" region or in the former Soviet republic, where, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ethnic Russians had problems.

"He has a secondary special education, in some cases - a higher education, but almost always there is no work in the specialty. At one time he went through the service in the army. Most likely, he remained in the army under contract, but for some reason he was forced to leave for a citizen. And I found myself a cashier in a shop, a taxi driver, a security guard, or even was unemployed at all, "writes the newspaper.

In addition, the mercenary is likely to be divorced, but he does not have one child, and for all he is obliged to pay alimony, and also has a loan of 20 to 100 thousand rubles.

"In his anamnesis, he has an addiction to alcohol," easy ", as he himself writes, drugs, and in some cases also a conviction for theft, hooliganism or beatings. And if you look more and a photo attached to the profiles, the more often he has a broken nose. Approximately such a collective image of a volunteer can be drawn by examining Wagnerian questionnaires. All of them, practically without exception, were being driven to war by a lack of money and a household disorder, "notes Fontanka, based on the data from the questionnaires.

These people, in 2014, rushed to the Donbas, where allegedly "suffer the Russians", but soon realized that in the war you can just make money if you join the "Wagner group".

In the fall of 2015, they simply changed direction: the Ukrainian - to the Syrian.

Since the summer of 2014, through the "Wagner Group" has passed the order of five thousand such people, in which simultaneously serve just over two thousand fighters.

The publication "Fonatnka" also has a separate stack of questionnaires marked "deserter".

"At least one high-ranking employee left the company, taking an invaluable array of information: everything about Wagner and Wagner. He left Russia and now, as far as we know, he lives in Israel, "the newspaper reported..