Minsk trains an army of children with Wagner’s help. The program manager is Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Porkhomtsev. Very young people are learning to become paramilitary forces and users are asking for it to be done in Russia too

Belarus has also begun training children, thanks to Wagner’s help. This was reported by the Telegram channel of Russian contractors, citing the local magazine Spetsnaz. Very young people are recruited through military-patriotic clubs and trained to become paramilitary forces. There are many “subjects” of study: from reconnaissance to the control of UAVs, passing through the use of weapons. The program manager is Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Porkhomtsev, who has already dealt with Spetsnaz in the past. This practice, which has long been condemned internationally and formally also by Belarus (in the country the minimum age to be conscripted is 18 by law), seems to find favor with the users of Wagner’s Telegram channel. Among the comments on the post there are various praises to the contractors and proposals to bring the initiative to Russia.

The post on the Wagner’s Telegram channel