Thread by @Ayei_Eloheichem

"It's a grotesque country...Faggotry flourishes there...As soon as we arrived...one of my fighters runs up to me, his lips heavily trembling: A Syrian had approached him with an offer to fuck him for a carton of cigarettes and a bottle of whisky."

-Wagner commander on Latakia

"It's dirty, everything is disgusting... go around areas where there's been no war, Latakia, for instance... the city center, every street, every roadside, garbage is squeezed in everywhere, nobody collects it, it only accumulates...they live worse than gypsies...."

"The Syrians can't fight... they basically abandon positions and flee 'Go, go, Russia, go!' they yell. Where are you going, assholes?! We need to defend the position! But no...we'll take the high ground, hand it to the Syrians in the evening. Come morning, no Syrians."

"I ask one of the translators: Why do your boys not want to fight? Oh, he says, many of our boys have been killed in the war. We need some to stay alive to fuck some girls so there will be children. Look, let us fuck your girls, I say, and you guys go fight. It's your country."

"No, he says, we must preserve our blood. What blood, I ask, your gay blood?"

"There's another 3 years at minimum [left of this war]. This Bashar Assad, they can't stand him. Seriously. A tiny percentage of the population supports him, all the rest are against him. Only Putin backs him. Russia back him. Nobody else does."

These quote are all from this @SvobodaRadio interview with Wagner commanders svoboda.org/a/29084090.html

"The war there is not the sort where anyone stands on ceremony. Everyone understands perfectly that to be captured is to be tortured to death. If this wild animals kills my guys, what am I supposed to do, domesticate it?"

--Wagner Commander on the Islamic State

"If there was information, we'd extract it & shoot them, and if there was no information, we'd shoot them without torture...I had specialists who ripped out [eyes]. It was a horrifying spectacle. Two tea spoons were taken, they had to hook above and below––the eyes would dangle."

From a older interview with different Wagner fighters talking about the SAA and pro-regime militias:

"God forbid one should have such allies. Because they always fuck up every task. Always."

A nightmare battle in Latakia where the SAA refused to do anything despite the Russians shooting at their legs, so the Russians undertook the assault:

"But still the Syrians didn't stop firing all along the hills. Sо they were shooting our guys in the ass! It was hell."

"They [the pro-regime militias and SAA] steal everything that isn't nailed down. They drag off everything: pipes, wires, they even ripped up the glazed tiles. I once saw them carry away an entire toilet."

Source: rus.err.ee/239149/istorij…

From another interview with yet more Wagner fighters:

"The city of Akerbat was taken solely by Wagner. The SAA arrived as the battle was finishing up, so as to be filmed by the news stations. We even hid in order not to appear in the frame while the Syrians posed heroically."

"We joked that the Syrians would say 'We've been fighting and fighting here for 3 years, in come the Russians, and the war begins.' "

"One gets the impression that no side desires victory in this war, not ISIS and not the regime forces."

"The skill of the Syrian army isn't even zero, it's less than that, you could say."

"There's a joke about this: The Russians give tanks to the Syrians, the Syrians give the tanks to ISIS, the Russians come and take the tanks back from ISIS, give them back to the Syrians again... and the cycle restarts..."

"I personally witnessed how Syrian special forces conducted recon missions. They'd get about 7km, then start crying over the radio about how they'd run out of water and some of them had suffered heat stroke... and then they'd come back, having failed to carry out their mission."

Interview with a Russian special forces officer:

"There are different types of Syrian soldiers. Yes, there are warriors. But sometimes you'll say 'run!' to one under fire and he can't move–– his legs have turned to rubber. Sometimes they start crying." iz.ru/648658/aleksei…

"We have to instruct them to let us return from the battle and not open fire and kill us."