Private military contractors see surging demand in Ukraine - but could the work turn mercenary?
Wanted: multilingual former soldiers willing to covertly head into Ukraine for the handsome sum of up to $2,000 per day - plus bonus - to help rescue families from an increasingly grim conflict.
There is "a frenzy in the market" for private contractors in Ukraine today, said Robert Young Pelton, a Canadian American author and expert on private military companies . The recruitment platform would not say who it was advertising for, but according to Mr Pelton, contractors are being hired for between $30,000 and $6m to help remove people from Ukraine. The higher-end figure is for whole groups of families wanting to leave with their assets, he said.
Mosaic's missions are largely intelligence-driven, rather than armed, said Mr Schiena, a former South African intelligence operative whose firm includes several former high-ranking US intelligence officials on its board. "Depending on how the conflict plays out, I think there will be a constant demand for [PMCs]," Mr Schiena said. "There's a constant need, and as [the war] escalates or de-escalates, there's always going to be something that we're approached to do".Private military contractors contracted by the US State Department in Afghanistan in 2005
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