"Wagnerists" are fighting better than a regular army of the Russian Federation - Pentagon

Lloyd Austin believes that mercenaries better control their offensive, using "unthinkable but effective methods. " Wagner PEC showed itself "a little better" in the fields of battle in Ukraine than a regular army of the Russian Federation, thanks to "unthinkable methods". At the same time, Russian troops did not show exemplary actions on a large scale. This was announced today, March 7, by US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin.

"They used prisoners to control their offensive, but I do not think they continue to recruit prisons. But these types of methods were really interesting, frankly speaking, unthinkable. But you know they are a little better than Russian forces. We have not seen the exemplary actions of Russian troops on a large scale, "Austin said. At the same time, the head of the Pentagon again emphasized on tremendous losses among mercenaries, saying that the United States has repeatedly noted it.

Today, March 7, it became known that the Russian businessman and owner of Wagner PEC Yevgeny Prigogin is ready to take military service to the ranks of his military formation of people who were treated in psychoneurological dispensaries. We will remind, on March 1, we wrote that in Bakhmut continue to eliminate members of the Wagner PEC, although they began to act during the storming in recent days, because they are now thrown in the direction now not "ZEKs", but by fighters with experience.

On February 24, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov also stated that the Wagner PVC fighters compared to simple mobilized Russians are fighting in Ukraine at times better. Instead, the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation intends to establish control of private military companies and displace Wagner PEC, the Armed Forces General Staff reported on February 23.