Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on Tuesday accused US private military companies of recruiting prisoners from Mexico and Colombia in US prisons to send them to fight on US soil. Ukrainian war.

“US private military companies, under the leadership of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, began recruit representatives of Mexican drug cartels and Colombians who are serving sentences in US prisons for participation in the Ukrainian conflict,” the SVR statement says.

According to the organization, “the United States is going to increasingly desperate methods in attempts to change the situation on the Ukrainian front, replenishing the ranks of the demobilized Ukrainian military with multinational scum with a penchant for armed violence.”

“Of course, the prospects for a new injection of “soldiers of fortune” chosen from serial killers, drug addicts and rapists (…) causes concern. However, American plans to achieve a tactical advantage on the battlefield in this way are doomed to failure,” the SVR added.

He added that the first batch of “these killers is planned to be deployed to the battlefield this summer.”

“The criminal group will consist of several hundred Mexicans and Colombians. If they agree to this “job”, they are promised a complete amnesty. with the hope that they will never return” from Ukraine, the department indicated.

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The SVR warned that “if the pilot project (…) is successful, the slaughterhouse recruitment program will continue and will expand to include criminals from other countries with serious criminal situations.”

However, he noted that this process is experiencing difficulties because “Negotiations with drug lords are difficult” and no criminal dares cooperate with US authorities without the approval of his bosses.

“Gang leaders try to sell their henchmen for as much as possible, thereby jeopardize US plans“, assessed Russian espionage.

The SVR noted that this shows that the administration of President Joe Biden “in practice admits its powerlessness and once again demonstrates to us the inconsistency of the Kyiv regime they support“.

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After the failure of the 2023 summer counteroffensive. In Ukraine there are great difficulties with conscriptionwhich were aggravated by delays in the approval of the new mobilization law, which was stuck in the Supreme Council for four months.

The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky himself called on Ukrainian deputies to abandon “populism” now. approve a new law on mobilization. (EFE)