The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has announced it has identified the chief military instructor of a Russian-hired group of Ukrainian mercenaries at Russia’s Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner.
“We have identified Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces Oleg Demyanenko, who is directly responsible for the training of the so-called Karpaty (Carpathians) tactical group, which consisted mainly of citizens of Ukraine who were members of illegal armed formations in [Russian-occupied] Donbas,\” SBU Chief Vasyl Hrytsak said at a briefing in Kyiv on May 7.
