The Russian Duma is expected to take up draft legislation regularizing the status of nominally “private” military companies, even though such mercenaries are banned by Russian law. And among the first places they may be deployed is Ukraine’s Donbas, according to Kyiv observer Aleksey Kaftan. In the January 19 issue of Delovaya Stolitsa, he says … Continue reading Moscow preparing to replace its forces in Donbas with ‘private’ military ones, Kyiv analyst suggests