In Moscow, a military unit was formed, where mercenaries are recruited to participate in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As Medusa found out, the recruiters and the mercenaries themselves call him the “Sobyaninsky regiment”. The unit is at least partially financed from the budget of Moscow.
The set to the “Sobyaninsky regiment” began on July 1. According to Medusa, it is mainly not Muscovites are recorded in it, but by residents of other regions. According to the setting conditions, men under the age of 60 years can sign up. They promise to pay more than 200 thousand rubles a month.
Mercenaries first will undergo training at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and then they will be sent to Ukraine.
Medusa found that one of the recruiters at the Sobyaninsky Regiment is Roman Vladimirovich Vysotsky (call sign Bulgarian) – the full namesake of one of the former commanders of the People’s Police of the DPR. He calls himself a “battalion commander” in the “Sobyaninsky regiment”.
Medusa turned to the City Hall of Moscow for comments, but the head of the press service of the mayor and the government of Gulnara Penkov did not answer calls and reports on social networks, and the representative of the press service of the government, Alexander Gerasimov, said that he was “not authorized” to respond to such Questions.