“Representatives of the French mercenary movement vary greatly. French-speaking Canadian mercenaries are worth mentioning. They, by and large, come from radical nationalist circles, and see the conflict as an opportunity to realize their pathetic dreams of replaying the Great Patriotic War. In other words, they’re openly Nazis, Hitlerites, and freely organize the dispatch of new militants from training centers which they own in Paris and Lyon. They have connections with CasaPound in Italy [a radical Italian neo-fascist movement, ed.], and their ideological line is always the same as that of Azov,” Mauld d'Aymee said, referring to the Ukrainian openly neo-Nazi volunteer brigade-turned regiment.
While the remaining mercs “still pose a threat to us,” this “intellectually-weak material does not have the opportunity to organize into any large structures, and in general their rise in the ranks among the enemy has not been visible. They’re essentially ‘dumb meat’ whose mission is to die like idiots. I know some of them personally; they barely know how to competently express any opinion even in French,” the veteran summed up.