Mercenaries from the Russian private military company Wagner, including many militants from the Ukrainian Donbass, came under attack from the forces of the anti-Assad coalition in Syria, because the Kremlin decided to "dispose". This opinion was expressed to the journalist of Radio Liberty by one of the "Cossacks" who visited the wounded mercenaries in the hospital.

According to him, the "Cossack" in fact did not kill 100 or 200 "Wagnerov" in Syria, but much more.

"When 550 people get into the desert at night under fire, it will not survive much ... About 200 people left their lives unharmed, the state of the remaining ones is unknown, but it was extremely difficult to survive there ... Zhirinovsky claims that more than 300 people, Viktor Alksnis says, that 334. I believe that they are close to the truth. I have information from different sources and from different regions, "says" Kozak ".

It is worth noting that the narrator did not name any of the names of those who died, and those who are currently in Russian hospitals.

"We do not name any names, for one simple reason: they can simply be thrown out of the hospital, since it is a hospital of the Ministry of Defense, and PMCs - any PMCs in Russia - is prohibited by law. And one more reason why I do not speak the name, because if they are expelled from the Ministry of Defense hospital and they go to civilian doctors, any of them, right up to the nurse, is obliged to report to the police and the prosecutor's office about the gunshot and any other injuries. Accordingly, a criminal case will be opened. And people will be in prison, "the narrator clarifies..

When asked by the journalist why, in advance of knowing all these difficulties, Russian citizens become mercenaries, the Cossack noted that these citizens simply have no other choice.

"The main reason why they go there - here they have no life, no work, no social or economic status. Neither as servicemen with certain experience, nor as ordinary citizens. They went as contractors to protect the pipeline Eugene Prigozhin, because it is precisely those "sacred" oil fields that are under Palmyra are they were guarding, "says the" Cossack ".

"Our (the soldiers of PMCs. - Red. ) - this is disenfranchised meat. Veterans of military operations have "huge" social guarantees in the form of thousands of rubles a month, and nothing more, "he complains..

According to him, the agreements that are signed with mercenaries who travel to Syria are outside the legal framework and have no legal force in the Russian Federation.

"In the case of injuries, the amount of up to one million rubles and two million in case of death. Distribute these amounts of recruiters who send children to Syria. With these payments, a lot of problems. I heard about one incident when the Wagnerite was killed, and his relatives were not paid a part of the money, it was in the Krasnodar Territory, "said the" Cossack ".

Asked whether the mercenaries who came to Syria fought in the Donbas, he said: "Before the introduction of troops to Syria, I said that there was a meeting in the Kremlin where, according to my information, an order was given [to the head of the" Volunteers Union of Donbass "Alexander ] I wish to "dispose" of the mass of people who have risen, who saw that it is possible to change power, so to say, not by election ".

"We have an SIZO in Donetsk, a prison in Lugansk, where people, including Russian citizens, have been kept for more than three years after the signing of the Minsk agreements. These people did not want to stop, they wanted to go further, to defend their homeland. And they were put in jail without charge. There is no advocacy, everything is there according to the concepts. And now the guys are sitting for three years. The recruiters come to them and say: either you continue to rot here, or you will go to war, maybe you'll earn something. When you see this choice before you, you go to war - and not for 150 thousand rubles, as certain PWC fighters are fighting, but you go to the "Spring", "Carpathians", where about 100 thousand are paid, and even then not always " - noted the "Cossack".

"Such people are not needed in our country. So, in addition to the oil goal, there was also the "utilization" of the veterans of Donbass. Actually, this is what they are doing.

The majority of the first, second and third Syrian recruitment, people who received serious training, were cleaned, or rather sent to the artillery preparation for the storming of Syrian cities, "- said the Russian mercenary.

Recall, February 8, 2018 became aware of the air strikes of the coalition in Syria, the victims of which were about 100 soldiers of the army of the allies of the Syrian President Bashar Assad. Sources CBS in the Pentagon reported that in Syria, "Russian mercenaries" were killed.