cover of episode Redut: The Fake PMC Feeding Recruits Into The Kremlin's War Against Ukraine

Redut: The Fake PMC Feeding Recruits Into The Kremlin's War Against Ukraine

2023/10/24
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A purported private military company called Redut is in reality a recruitment system for combat units that is coordinated and funded by Russia's armed forces and their intelligence agency, the GRU, RFE/RL investigative units Schemes and Systema have found. Investigative reporters Valeria Yehoshyna and Yelizaveta Surnacheva join the host to discuss the remarkable investigation and the revelations it produced.