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“Ukraine closely guards its casualty figures, but its forces are believed to be suffering badly around Bakhmut.
“They’ve been taking extraordinarily high casualties,” Milburn said of the units training with Mozart. “The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated.”
Despite their “tremendous morale,” Milburn said the defenders “have an acute ‘regeneration problem,’ which means getting new recruits into the line as quickly as possible.” This means those being thrown into the fight have little beyond basic training.
“Typically about 80 percent of our intake who are coming off of the line HAVE NEVER EVEN FIRED A WEAPON BEFORE,” Milburn said. “We’ve got our work cut out for us.”
https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321
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“Prigozhin wrote on Telegram in November that “American mercenaries” led by retired U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Andrew Milburn had taken command of a badly mauled Ukrainian brigade. The same day, Mozart’s website suffered a DDOS attack, and Prigozhin’s allegations were QUICKLY PICKED UP BY RUSSIA’S NEWS OUTLETS.
MOZART GROUP
This composite image shows Ukrainian troops undergoing combat training with trainers from The Mozart Group at undisclosed locations in Ukraine, and Mozart volunteers delivering food supplies to undisclosed front line settlements in the east of the country. The Mozart Group is also helping to evacuate civilians, including around Bakhmut.
Milburn told Newsweek on Tuesday that “it’s not inconceivable” that WAGNER is targeting MOZART VOLUNTEERS operating in the east of the country.
“We have had three hotels that we stayed in hit by missiles, which could have been random,” he said, noting one hotel strike occurred the day after a Mozart group checked out. “They could definitely be targeting us, which seems like a lot of resources to focus on a group that’s doing mostly HUMANITARIAN work.”
“None of these threats or all the b******* flying around on Telegram are going to affect our operations at all.”
Wagner vs. Mozart
Milburn dismissed Prigozhin’s description of Mozart as a private military company. “People call us a PMC because that’s ALL THEY [RUSSIA] HAVE AS A FRAME OR REFERENCE,” he said. “We DON’T CARRY WEAPONS, our tasks are humanitarian—and I mean, seriously, legally humanitarian.”
Mozart, he noted, is a 501(c)(3)-registered charitable organization.
“Any mercenary would scoff at what we pay our guys...the Ukrainian soldiers we train get paid more than our guys,” Milburn added. “We have a higher emotional intelligence, we recruit a different sort of person. We’re NOT armed, we DON’T FIGHT. We have nothing in common with other PMCs.