The 3rd Specialized Brigade told how the military views the mobilization of prisoners into the army
Date: 2024-06-17 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WAR
The military at the front is expecting reinforcements, including from among the mobilized convicts, because there is a critical shortage of personnel.
The commander of the 2nd assault battalion of the 3rd Special Brigade, Dmitry Kukharchuk, said this in an interview with Army TV. It excludes the formation of "headquarters".
“In our case, these will be people who will be integrated into units. That is, I am going to give 1-2 people to each of my platoons in each department. That is, they will be distributed,” said the battalion commander.
In his opinion, creating separate units from mobilized prisoners is wrong from different points of view.
“If separate units (are formed from mobilized prisoners), then this is a “penal battalion”. And this is a very bad story. The consequences will be such that, firstly, it will discourage other prisoners from going further to mobilize. But we want a one-time story or on an ongoing basis? If this is a one-time story, then it’s just an analogue of StormZ and is no different from it. The problem is, if someone suddenly has such a concept and wants to implement it, then one must remember that in Russian prisons there is no history. There were about 700 thousand people with “Wagner” and StormZ, and 30 thousand with the Ukrainian ones. Therefore, it is unrealistic to implement these stories as they do, namely “meat assaults”... The second consequence is that this will have a very negative image internationally. arena," Kukharchuk said.
In his opinion, mobilized prisoners should not be more than 20% of the total number of personnel.
“We are a volunteer unit. And when the brigade was formed, we were given some of the mobilized people... The questions began: “What will it be? How will they fight? How will we fight with the mobilized? But the truth turned out to be that the percentage of the mobilized that we were given - it was no more than 20% of the total number of personnel - was integrated into the unit and showed itself well. People realized that they were accepted into the family, felt part of the family, and in many cases performed as well, and sometimes better, than the volunteers. As a result, this boundary has become blurred. If it was 50% to 50%, then there could be problems, I'm sure there would be. Therefore, the main question is to calculate the required percentage. I think that this should be no more than 20%, ideally 15% of prisoners to the number of volunteers, as well as mobilized to volunteers. I see it like this,” commented Kukharchuk.
According to him, fighters and commanders understand that there is a large, critical shortage of personnel.
“Everyone is waiting for the replenishment to arrive. Everyone understands that we need people,” he emphasized.
