The myth circulating for several years on “group Wagner” - alleged Russian private military companies(PMC), which was engaged in the execution of special missions Crimean, in the Donbas and in the framework of the Syrian civil conflict, says Dmitry Sikorski online “economy today”.
Interesting, that the story was picked up by a Russian Society, and we have even formed a kind of analogue of the myth of “Robin buzzing”, who do good in Syria, although in practice these certificates, naturally, not hold water. The thing is, that the alleged actions of PMCs Wagner have outspoken character or legends, or issued under them the operation of ordinary Russian troop of special forces in this civil conflict.
History PMC Wagner sewn with white thread
As a starting point of the activities of this mythical organization it is usually called the liberation of Crimea, followed by events in the Donbass, and then “coming” Syria.
Notably, that there is no evidence of any of the structure of the organization, nor of its leadership, or of military problems, that this was supposed to perform PMC.
Just look at two facts, which is usually attributed to PMC Wagner. At first, a personality commander - Lieutenant Colonel Dmitri Utkin, which according to the opposition press was commander 700 detachment 2 SPN brigade GRU, stationed in Pskov region.
Based on what has been done this conclusion - clear. The thing is, that according to the Defense Ministry and other indirect evidence of such officer in the division of the Russian army has never been, neither command, nor to any other positions.
Secondly, It is the story of the first “losses” PMC Wagner in civil conflict in Syria, which is associated with an injection of the mortar shelling of the base of the Armed Forces (Russian Armed Forces) in Syria.
The interesting thing here, that this story began with the material The Wall Street Journal and then went “walk” on the global and Russian opposition press.
Wherein, in practice it has not been confirmed nor the fact of shelling Russian military base, nor the fact of Russia's losses, nor even the fact of the Russian Armed Forces military facility at this point Syria.
Approximately the same picture emerges in the analysis of any other “information”, associated with PMC Wagner - any speculation, polusobytiya, gossip, either in a positive, or in a negative way, but, wherein, always clear, that we are talking about a legend, about a myth, rather than real combat unit in the framework of the Syrian conflict.
All this suggests that, that journalists, who write about this topic, does not have any confidential information from structures, who could competently answer these questions, and operate only untested data, sometimes from social networks.
Russia does not need the structures of the PMC Wagner
Mythical PMC Wagner often try to imagine, as a tool of the Kremlin on the implementation of the military tasks in local conflicts.
Wherein, none of the people, who promote such views, does not ask, and why our country is such military structures, because the first thing we must not forget, PMCs that are banned in the country - you can argue, needed or not, but the fact remains - so far no one has convinced our government, that should be allowed in Russia such organizations.
Secondarily, it should be noted, that Russia created Special Operations Forces - MTR, who are able to perform the military task in conflicts of any intensity and even indirect political participation on the part of Russia.
Thirdly, secrecy, which supposedly is the main advantage of such structures, for Russia has no role, since we have adopted a package of laws, which actually closes activity MTR and allows this structure to form temporary connections.
This is primarily federal laws, that put the secrecy on military casualties in peacetime, as well as a bill on short-term military contracts.
In this situation, the raison d'être of PMCs Wagner can be only as a mythical hero in the press.
There is no evidence of the existence of such a structure
Head of the Department of Political Science RG Plekhanov, military expert Andrey Koshkin He noted, that so far no one has yet provided under these conversations factual evidence.
“Besides, harping on this subject is due to the famous myth, that the use of PMCs supposedly completely hides the state's involvement in the military conflict in solving difficult tasks outside their own territory”, – Koshkin says.
Another question, experience shows, that this is not the case - just look at the actions of the Americans in Iraq, where half of the losses occur in the PMCs, but this is due to financial circumstances - it is well known, the main line of the US military budget - is wages personnel together with social insurance.
Therefore, using PMC, which in practice are common ground units of the US Army, Pentagon just outside these limits and not associate their actions with the budget and the legal framework, which in the US, unlike Russia, it is now crucial.
“Respectively, in the context of our country, the Russian specifics such military structures are not needed, especially, if they were really in possession of Moscow and acted in the framework of the Syrian conflict, in the West it could be a long time to find the actual evidence. After all, these structures participate in practice it is impossible to hide, but, Despite this, nothing but questionable articles in Western media still has not been given”, – concludes Koshkin.
Russia and without PMC solves all military affairs in Syria
According to Andrei Petrovich, if Western intelligence services would be such evidence, then they would definitely be published, because it would be a great help to the policy of the West to demonize our country, as well as the operation to discredit the Armed Forces of Russia and videoconferencing in Syria.
“Besides, we must not forget about the fact, Now that Russia has created its tactics of military conflicts, which does not imply involvement of PMCs and other “gray” forces. At present, The Russian Defense Ministry has all the necessary legal and methodological basis for the solution of such military issues”, – summarizes Koshkin.
The expert is confident, that the Russian Armed Forces MTR completely solve the problems in Syria, that could be assigned to structures like the mythical PMC Wagner.
“To date, no one hides, and, Furthermore, we are proud of effective actions of the Russian special forces in Syria, who participated in the implementation of such large-scale military operations, as the release of Aleppo and Palmyra”, – summarizes Koshkin.
These military structures, as is known, there was carried out reconnaissance and induce combat aircraft and attack helicopters in the air group videoconferencing Russian position on terrorists.
“To date, we fully resolve all military issues outside of our state, using existing structures, therefore no need for the involvement of structures such as PMCs in Syria - no”, – Koshkin says.
Incidentally, we have noted, that the structure of such PMCs are characteristic of Western countries, where military operations have become a pure business - in this case, press long ago got used to, that such organizations exist,, and now simply projecting their perception “colonial” military campaign to Russia's actions in Syria.
Therefore, all the talk about the PMC Vagneraa, in the end, reduced to the classic story of a Hollywood movie, where there is always needed a specific character, preferably from Russia, concludes Dmitry Sikorski online “economy today”.
