According to him, according to RIA Novosti, there are about 600 people in the battalion.
“(In the battalion) there are Serbs, Turks, Scandinavians ... This category cannot yet get to the front lines ... there are 12-15 percent of them,” Balitsky said.
He clarified that there are people in this battalion who had previously fought on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but after “understanding everything that was happening, when people saw the truth, many of them agreed to join our unit.”
In January, Balitsky announced that volunteers from Serbia began to perform combat training tasks as part of combat coordination as part of the Pavel Sudoplatov battalion in the Zaporozhye region.
On February 3, the Pavel Sudoplatov Volunteer Battalion announced a reward of 12 million rubles for each serviceable captured German Leopard tank, American Abrams or British Challenger.