Edition Readovka published screenshots with messages from the chat of the Private Security Organization (PSO) “Warrior”, in which mercenaries are asked to protect the clearing of the Trinity Forest from local residents for two weeks.
According to the publication, Voin presents its employees as former military officers, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and PMC Wagner. As Alexander Litoy, a representative of the initiative group against deforestation, told Znak.com, over the past month, two organizations have already been involved in the protection of deforestation, but this did not give any special results.
Discussions about deforestation began as early as 2018, Litoy said, but the administration only began to take action in mid-January. Lumberjacks appeared in the forest, which immediately rallied the locals: “There were people who said:“ We will climb under the chainsaws, ”says the interlocutor of Znak.com.
At the moment, lumberjacks need to cut down about 500 more trees to start construction work, Litoy says. On Monday, according to him, they cut down only one tree, on Sunday – 10. At the same time, as a result of clashes with PSC employees, one of the women left in an ambulance.
“At first they sent some completely caricatured bandits from Krasnodar. Their director became famous for shouting “drank her leg“, after which they were removed for being odious,” says Litoy about the results of the security work of the SMERSH private security company.
To replace SMERSH, another organization was involved in the protection. Her staff acted more professionally. How told Olga Slastunina, a lawyer of the initiative group, a group of about 20 people who were aggressive towards the local residents, worked smoothly and according to clear orders. “They present themselves as PMCs who have gone through hot spots,” Slastunina said.
However, it is impossible to determine their belonging, Litoy points out. “Now there is some topic that they want to recruit some more fools, but it seems to me that this is a dead end. Riots can really start there,” the interlocutor says. However, he notes that he has not heard about the involvement of mercenaries who worked with the Wagner PMC.
According to published reports by Readovka, the work of the “Warrior” in Troitsk should begin on February 2 and will last approximately two weeks. For an 8-hour shift, mercenaries are offered 6,000 rubles. “We are on the side of the construction company, the administration and authorities are also on the side of the construction company,” the message says.
According to Readovka, the Voin NGO, created by Artur Manasyan, is recruiting people en masse for personal protection, protection of nightclubs, and also to “solve problems with your enemies, debtors.” The CHOO presents its employees as “former military, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and the Wagner PMC.”
On the site of the eastern part of the Troitsky forest park, the authorities plan to build a “giant school” – a complex of buildings with a kindergarten, a swimming pool, a football field and several gyms. The project with an area of over 30 thousand square meters was planned to be completed in 2023. Judging by the cadastral map, it is planned to cut down 4.9 hectares of the eastern part of the forest for the school (its total area is 75 hectares). At the same time, there is already a school 300 meters from the proposed construction site, another one 500 meters away, two gymnasiums, a lyceum and an elementary school within a radius of 1 kilometer, wrote “Kommersant”.