At the Kozachyi training ground in the occupied city of Sevastopol, the Crimean Peninsula, Russian military personnel train mercenaries from Africa and Cuba, agents of the Atesh partisan movement reported on Sunday, November 10.

The training ground is run by Russia’s 810th Marine Infantry Brigade, where military trucks periodically arrive carrying people who don’t resemble the local population, supporters say.

In addition, shooting exercises for teenagers of the Yunarmiya (a Russian military-nationalist youth organization that includes schoolchildren aged 8 and above) are sometimes held on the same training grounds.

“The rashists are using children as human shields, trying to protect their soldiers and mercenaries from strikes by the Ukrainian defense forces,” the statement said. supporters of Ateshadding: “Our officers continue to closely monitor such incidents and are prepared to provide any information necessary to hold the occupiers to account.”

Earlier, the Kyiv Post reported that Russian troops of the 810th Marine Brigade, stationed in Russian-occupied Crimea, would be pay bribes to avoid deployment in the Kursk region. Supporters say low morale among Russian personnel has led some to offer bribes to their superiors to stay in Crimea.

“As a result of this situation, some commanders are reportedly demanding bribes to grant temporary deployment reprieves,” the Atesh report said.

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The guerrillas added that those who managed to stay on base by paying these bribes are now trying to appear active.

“They are busy installing camouflage barriers and moving equipment from one location to another, deeply fearing an imminent surprise from the Ukrainian defense forces,” the report said.

In mid-October, Atesh’s supporters monitored the Sevastopol guard post near the vehicle depot of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Here, “refusals” – soldiers, mainly from the 810th Brigade, who disobeyed orders to fight in the Kursk region – allegedly detained in restrictive conditions for the purposes of “re-education”.