Dictator Vladimir Putin's party "United Russia" has its private army — the so-called private military company (PMC) "Espanyola".
Putin's private army "Espanyola": what is currently known about it
According to the data of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), "Espanyola" was previously in the structure of the so-called "Vostok" battalion as a volunteer unit of Russian football hooligans.
However, last year, Putin's political force decided to take it into its own hands — after that, the terrorist unit declared the status of a so-called private military company and started active recruiting with money from "Edinaya Rossia" [United Russia in English — Ed.].
The DIU learned that so-called football "ultras", Russian radicals of all stripes, in particular sympathisers of Nazi ideology, as well as ordinary civilians from the impoverished "subjects" of the Russian Federation and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, are being recruited into the "Espanyola" PMC.
What is essential to understand is that the latter are used in "meat" assaults to create the status of a "combat unit".
How is recruiting for Putin's PMC "Espanyola"
DIU reported that the recruiting points of "Espanyola" are located in the occupied Ukrainian territories, and volunteers are promised 220,000 rubles per month for direct participation in hostilities against Ukraine.
In addition, it is indicated that the contract can be signed for at least half a year.
Die for Russia is also lured by "insurance payments":
1 million rubles — minor injury;
2 million rubles — injuries of medium severity;
3 million rubles — serious injury;
Five million rubles — death.
However, financial motivation serves only as a wrapper. For most recruits, the first fight is a one-way ticket. The Russians do not take the dead and seriously wounded from among the recruited "cannon fodder" from the battlefield, they are registered as "missing" in order not to pay the relatives rubles for the breadwinner sent by Moscow to the death.
