He noted that recruiting mercenaries through diplomatic missions is ineffective, since “disposal of one’s own population at the front is much cheaper.”
“Secondly, the attitude of the mercenaries themselves to participation in hostilities against the Russian army has changed, because the nature of military operations here is completely different than in Syria, Iraq or other hot spots, where the customers of their services are the Anglo-Saxons,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying. .
Earlier it became known that the Russian Investigative Committee is investigating criminal cases against more than 590 mercenaries from 46 countries fighting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.