Charlatans seized upon the training of Russian conscripts – analysts

Sometimes Russians called up for mobilization and undergoing training at training grounds are taught by freaks who do not have the appropriate knowledge.

The military-analytical telegram channel Rybar writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“The mobilization revealed many problems, including the lack of trained combat training instructors. Somewhere this was compensated for by personal initiative, when the command attracts people with real experience and skills to train personnel. But along with them, a string of well-known charlatans with a desire to make money and promote themselves under a good pretext also reached the training grounds,” writes Rybar.

As an example, the situation is given in Kamenka, Leningrad region, where Andrei Kochergin, “the author of his own “hand-to-hand combat system” and the owner of fictitious achievements in a variety of fields,” is working with reservists right now.

“Among them, for example, “secret business trips to the Caucasus,” although in reality he was discharged from the armed forces back in 1992 after four years of service. Before those mobilized, Kochergin asks to call himself a colonel (and commanders demand similar treatment from their subordinates). Kochergin himself is a senior lieutenant in the reserves. When mobilized, he demonstrates “trickle aiming,” when the fighter must pull the trigger of the AK while raising the weapon.

And the saddest thing is that recently, in the same Kamenka, the commission demanded the removal from the territory of some “outsiders” - experienced instructors with their own equipment and combat training methods, privately recruited by the command. But no questions arose to Kochergin, whose participation in the preparation of the mobilized was paid for by the administration,” the publication notes.

The authors do not exclude the possibility that we can continue to turn a blind eye to the activities of charlatans.

“But those whom they supposedly are preparing will end up unprepared on the front line. At best, it will lead to another scandalous video with mobilized people and their relatives, at worst - with footage of the death of fighters. And those who sent the pokers to the landfills for a small reward will ultimately have to bear responsibility for this,” Rybar sums up.

As a result, the channel administration turned to the Investigative Committee and the military prosecutor’s office with a request to conduct an investigation into the above facts.

Moscow journalist Andrei Medvedev is also outraged by what is happening at the training ground, describing the situation as a “war crime.”

“If this, of course, is true, and an obvious freak and Internet charlatan Kochergin was involved in training the mobilized, then the command of the unit should not even be taken over by the prosecutor’s office, but by military counterintelligence. To find out whether the command is working for the enemy, namely the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Recently, in the Moscow region, a conscript was arrested who, in an argument with an officer, began to be rude to him and pushed the officer in the chest. Yes, there is a violation, the article is there. Involving Kochergin is an even greater violation. More precisely, as I said above, a war crime.

When there are hundreds of combat veterans in the country, and now of this military operation, and instead of them, I don’t understand who is called to teach the mobilized, then it can’t be called anything else. If only because people will go to the front, confident that they have some kind of practical knowledge. And their skills are no different from the skills of people who attended the training of Tony Robbins or Blinovskaya. In short, we need to sort this out once and for all, kick the charlatans out of the army and send them to prison, along with the command of the unit (if, I repeat, this is the case).

Or even then we need to make a decision and, instead of special forces officers and special operation veterans, involve in training soldiers exclusively smart fitness trainers, masters of non-contact karate, masters of “truly Russian combat systems,” as well as magicians, hypnotists and shaman Sanya Gabyshev from the madhouse,” - Medvedev summarized.