“Wagnerians” act more decisively than mobilized, although formed from prisoners. Such an assessment of the mercenaries of the PMC Vagner was given by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Major General Kirill Budanov in an interview with the Ukrainian media.
Journalists asked Budanov to evaluate the Russian military, noting that in Ukrainian society they say about the army of the Russian Federation humiliating. While the warring Ukrainians indicate that they have a rather furious enemy.
“There can be no unambiguous answer, because it is different. How to compare the unit of the territorial troops formed from mobilized, and, say, the elite unit of the airborne troops or the unit of the private military company” Wagner “? Is this heaven and earth. “Wagner” is higher. Unfortunately, this is true, ”said the Ukrainian Major General.
Budanov noted: Wagner’s assault detachments are usually formed from prisoners, but they are commanded by fairly professional former military. And they act “decisively, powerfully quite powerful”.
According to him, a very small part of the “Wagnerians” – those who have served in PMC for many years – have internal motivation, a “specific code”. And 90% are prisoners, motivated exclusively by fear.