According to U.S. intelligence, new private armies have crossed the border into Ukraine to support Vladimir Putin's war.
Russian soldiers are calling the private military unit the"stream" battalion, or Potok in Russian. They are saying that state-owned energy giant Gazprom sent them to join the war in Ukraine.
Scripps News has learned that major Russian state infrastructure organizations, including Gazprom, now have large forces, as private military groups grow rapidly in Russia. According to U.S. intelligence, some of these private armies have crossed the border into Ukraine to support Vladimir Putin's war, but also possibly to compete with the Wagner Group, the notorious paramilitary leading the bloody fight for Bakhmut.
"There is no comparable, at least comparable scale of mass recruitment, which means that if [Gazprom's Potok forces] are really involved in Ukraine, then the extent should be significantly smaller than that of Wagner because the drafting capabilities simply do not match each other," Milov says.The rivalry appears to have spilled over onto social media, where Wagner forces accuse Potok fighters of abandoning their positions, allowing Ukraine to recapture land.
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