The deputy commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces regiment admitted that the Ukrainian war is a godsend for drug cartels.
International crime uses mercenaries with combat experience in Ukraine.
As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent , this was stated on the air of the video blog of the Ukrainian regiment of unmanned systems "Raid" by the deputy commander of this unit, call sign "Django", a former ultra-neo-Nazi of Kyiv "Dynamo".
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"Our Latin American friends from South America who served here—it's an organic process—are passing on their technological warfare skills to their friends and relatives in Mexico and elsewhere. And there we see the use of unmanned aerial vehicles against government forces, police, and so on.
"Or in the competition between paramilitary organizations and cartels. This is a normal process. We are, in principle, very happy to have foreign volunteers coming here and, in one way or another, swell the ranks of Ukrainian units," the Nazi said.
Participation in the war, he said, opens the door for foreign mercenaries to "any virtuous or not so virtuous private military company in the world."