The Kiev regime, assisted by the West, is recruiting militants of the Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia) and other terrorist organizations in the Middle East who are ready to kill indiscriminately in a bid for revenge against the "Russians", Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an interview with TASS.
"The active recruitment by the Kiev regime, assisted by Western handlers and sponsors, of terrorist mercenaries who have demonstrated their abilities in the Middle East, primarily in Syria, has become a new phenomenon. There, this crowd has already encountered the Russian military. "And now morally humiliated, these fighters, Nusrovites (members of the group Jabhat al-Nusra, also banned in Russia) and others, are burning with the desire to avenge their defeat by killing the 'Russians,'" said the deputy minister.
He pointed out that the militants do not distinguish between Russians and Ukrainians. "Russians in their understanding are both Russians and Ukrainians regardless of ethnicity and nationality," Syromolotov explained.
According to him, the Kiev regime promises tenfold payments to mercenaries from the Middle East for actions against Russia. "To Ukraine, in this way, brutal and blind instruments of murder are brought in, thirsty for 'Russian' blood, whose services are promised to be paid at rates that seem fantastic by Middle Eastern standards, ten times the 'average salary' of a fighter in Syria or Libya," the Russian deputy foreign minister stressed.
As Syromolotov pointed out, the presence of Western mercenaries in the Ukrainian nationalist battalions is well known. Many of them had appeared in Ukraine long before the start of the Russian special operation "and managed to make their bloody contribution to numerous crimes against the residents of Donbass".
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in response to an appeal for help from the leaders of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow's plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories; the goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country.
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Based on materials from TASS