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Russian mercenaries rarely give interviews. Little wonder. The secretive Wagner Group, an elite private army carrying out Vladimir Putin’s dirty work abroad, have murdered their way through missions in Syria, Libya, Mali and elsewhere before apparently being sent into Ukraine. These brutal special-forces veterans are now reported to have a “kill list” of assassination targets including Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko.

One person Wagner members have spoken with, surprisingly, is an American – Dr Sean McFate. After his own career as a “private military contractor” – the polite term he prefers – McFate uses his “street cred” with these men to secure information for his work today as a security consultant and war strategist.

But recently, the Wagner operatives he was in contact with have “ghosted”. McFate believes it’s because they were among the roughly 400 thought to have been ordered into Ukraine, in plans dating back months.
Putin has denied being linked to the organisation, but according to McFate, he is employing them “as shock troops, as assassins… as a fifth column in front of the Russian invasion”. These are the saboteurs that Ukraine has been trying to hunt down while imposing a curfew on its capital.

Their goals will be “to cause mayhem, to cause fear… not to worry about collateral damage or human rights, to be as brutish as necessary, and to be as clever and cunning as needed”, says McFate, speaking to i from Washington.

serve to provide a cross section, a sampling, of what the attentive public is thinking. speed read comments not only to get into arguments, but to see where other people's heads are at... and if and when u get fed up, take a break!

ALSO- if anyone has any info, by all means provide it- this site is unusual as Hal gives out what comes in to him almost as fast as he gets it; ever notice other sites come out with the the same topic updates days later? As such, he isnt vetting every damn murmur, but giving it out raw, i appreciate that. We can then go off in search of more on (moron?) anything and bring it in. Im not here to be spoon fed hanging on and judging his accuracy- he gives it out, hot & now- i prefer that to leftovers... If anyone has anything to add to the news here (and many already do this) post it- and maybe leave off piling on every report that isnt perfectly accurate- ok, go ahead and neg vote, but, whaddyagot? anything?

This is the same intelligence chief that Putin publicly humiliated a couple weeks ago.