Redut (company)

Redut (Russian: ЧВК «Редут»), also known as Redut-Antiterror or Centre R, is a Russian Private Military and Security Company (PMSC), part of the "Antiterror-family" which consists of similarly named PMSCs that protect commercial operations of civilian Russian companies, and is deployed by Russia in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Redut
ЧВК «Редут»
FounderKostiantyn Mirzayants (allegedly)[1]
Dates of operation2008–present
HeadquartersKubinka, Russia
Size
Battles and wars
Websitehttp://redut-czentr.narod.ru/

It was established in 2008, as a merger of several smaller groupings by veterans of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the Russian Air Force and units of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), who had already gained experience in military and peacekeeping missions.[6]

Organisation

According to Norwegian researchers from the Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt - FFI (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment), Redut-Antiterror emerged from the PMSC Antiterror-Orel, founded around 2003 by members of Russian Special Forces.[7] It is an affiliate or branch of the Antiterror-Orel offshoot Tiger Top Rent Security and is recruited predominantly from members of the Russian 45th Guards Special Reconnaissance Brigade. After sustaining heavy losses in the Kyiv Offensive, Redut contractors got invited to their base in Kubinka and offered contracts by the Russian MoD, to serve officially in the Russian Armed Forces. According to one of Redut's former commanders, Redut is under complete control of the Russian MoD.[6][5]

Main backers of the company are said to be Oleg Deripaska and Gennady Timchenko, according to information provided by the website gulagu.net founded by Russian dissident Vladimir Osechkin, which cites a Redut deputy commander testifying under cover names. From them, the PMC received armored personnel carriers, helmets, and protective vests.[8][9]

Deployment areas

Main areas

Former areas

There are indications that the organisation provided military advisors and trainers for Abkhazian units in the Russo-Georgian War. It also saw action in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Caribbean countries, the former Yugoslavia, as well as Afghanistan and Indonesia.[12][13] Its services included the deployment of snipers, pioneers and guards. Personnel have been deployed to protect convoys, military installations, oil production facility personnel and Russian diplomats. In order to establish itself in the Iraq environment, the company received direct support from the FSB (intelligence).[14]

See also

Literature

References
  1. "Расследование «Медузы» о наемниках на войне в Украине". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  2. "В Сирии убиты трое наемников из российской ЧВК «Щит». Она занимается охраной объектов, принадлежащих Геннадию Тимченко". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  3. "Без «Щита»". Новая газета - Novayagazeta.ru (in Russian). 8 October 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  4. "Vladimir Osechkin about PMC Wagner and PMC Redut". The Odessa Journal. 28 October 2022. Archived from the original on 20 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  5. A mercenaries’ war How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to a ‘secret mobilization’ that allowed oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin to win back Putin’s favor
  6. Tor Bukkvoll, Åse G. Østensen: Russian Use of Private Military and Security Companies-the implications for European and Norwegian Security, FFI-RAPPORT, pages 22-23, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, 11 September 2018, retrieved from researchgate.net on 18 September 2022
  7. "Analysis: Russian PMCs in the Middle East and Africa". bpb.de. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  8. Mercenari russi e quel legame con la Svizzera Radiotelevisione Svizzera, 29 January 2023
  9. The trail of a mercenary gang also leads to Switzerland. Bluewin, 30 January 2023
  10. Convicts in arms
  11. Uzbekistan is verifying information about the capture of two of its citizens near Balaklia. They allegedly volunteered for the Russian army
  12. Sergey Sukhanin: From 'Volunteers' to Quasi-PMCs: Retracing the Footprints of Russian Irregulars in the Yugoslav Wars and Post-Soviet Conflicts, Jamestown Foundation, 27. June 2019, retrieved 18 September 2022
  13. "The Role of Private Military Contractors in Russian Foreign Policy". pism.pl. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  14. "Putin's Invisible Army". Warsaw institute.org. 30 March 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
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