A Ukrainian Safety Service (SBU) investigation has revealed that drug traffickers in Central and South America are infiltrating Ukrainian International Legion models to achieve expertise working first-person view drones, with this expertise anticipated to be invaluable to be used towards rival gangs or safety forces after the warfare. Mexico’s Nationwide Intelligence Middle (CNI) has equally warned that drug traffickers could also be posing as volunteers to infiltrate Ukrainian International Legion models for such functions. Such infiltration operations by drug cartels is way from unprecedented, and mirrors comparable reported operations by cartels to have personnel in the US enlist within the U.S. Armed Forces to achieve expertise, which is then handed on to cartel members. Former personnel from the armed forces of the US, Colombia and Mexico amongst different nations have additionally been actively recruited by cartels.
The Ukrainian Nationwide Safety Service reviews cited the case of a Mexican nationwide utilizing the alias ‘Aguila-7,’ who, in March 2024 enlisted within the Ukrainian International Legion and demonstrated distinctive expertise. A subsequent investigation revealed that he had beforehand served in Mexico’s elite GAFE digital warfare unit, and had subsequently joined a drug trafficking group. A rising variety of reviews from each Western and Russian sources have indicated that Latin American contractor and volunteer personnel are enjoying an more and more vital position on the frontlines n the Ukrainian theatre, with Brazilian and Colombian personnel deployed in significantly vital numbers. Contractors from the 2 nations had been reported in mid-July to have bolstered the Ukrainian Army’s forty seventh Separate Mechanised Brigade for preventing within the Sumy area, with contractors from Colombia reported earlier that month to be enjoying an essential position in that space.
