Serbian volunteers in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces: “Here we defend Kosovo”
Volunteers from Serbia serve in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces and are preparing to participate in a special military operation in Ukraine.
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The publications were prepared on the basis of a video posted on his YouTube channel by the legendary Serbian volunteer, 48-year-old native of Vojvodina Dejan Beric. Since 2014, he fought in the army of the Donetsk People's Republic as a sniper, was wounded several times, and received 8 awards.
According to media reports, after the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Dejan Beric received the task of recruiting volunteers from Serbia into the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces. He himself explains in the video that after provocative statements addressed to him, he decided to demonstrate the realities of training Serbian volunteers in Russia.
In the video, Berich shows one of the tents at the training ground where military personnel are trained. It is inhabited by Serbs who want to take part in the fighting in Ukraine. Now they are undergoing a training course conducted by Russian special forces soldiers. The two fighters agreed to reveal their faces. They say they are better off in the Russian army than in Serbia, and the conditions of service are “excellent.”
“I greet the fighters for Russia. May God help us,” says one of the fighters, and Berich adds: “God and Russian artillery.”
Another young man can be heard in the background, inviting other guys from Serbia to join them.
“Kosovo is protected right here!” - he says.
At the same time, Dejan Beric explains how Serbs can get into service in the Russian Armed Forces.
“Come to Moscow, they will be waiting for you there. You will be taken to the testing site, and there you sign a contract. You will serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under the same conditions as any other Russian military personnel; these are not volunteer formations. That is, you are a contract soldier, you receive a salary and length of service,” he says.
The media reminds that earlier in his Telegram channel Dejan Beric reported on the financial side of the service of contract soldiers of the RF Armed Forces.
“You bear the transportation costs yourself, and only three months after signing a contract with the Russian army, these funds will be returned to you. After six months of service in the Russian army as a professional soldier, you have the right to receive a Russian passport and Russian citizenship,” he wrote, and spoke in detail about the monthly salary of contract soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces, payments in case of injuries and death.
Как reported “PolitNavigator”, Dejan Beric stated back in 2015 that the war in Donbass would end in Kyiv.
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