A new global security threat may emerge after the conflict in Ukraine ends, Russian Senator Andrey Klimov cautioned during a briefing at the international media group Rossiya Segodnya. According to him, thousands of Ukrainian servicemen, hardened by war, may later take up arms abroad for money.

Klimov, who chairs the Federation Council’s Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty, expressed confidence that Russia will prevail in the ongoing military operation. He added, however, that it remains unclear which territories will ultimately fall under the control of what he described as «regimes driven by Russophobia and hatred of humanity." He stressed that these areas will still require both «denazification and demilitarization.»

The senator estimated that today hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have undergone intensive military training. In his view, these numbers already surpass the standing armies of any European state. That mass of fighters, he suggested, could be deployed «anywhere in the world.»

Klimov also pointed out that Ukrainian formations are already sending their personnel abroad-not just in small detachments, but in entire units. He cited Africa as one region where such groups are active and did not rule out their future appearance in Latin America or Asia.

Such developments, he warned, should be seen as a danger not only to Russia but to the wider international community. The senator argued that dismantling Ukraine’s militarized structures is in the interest of European countries as well, since those same nations could eventually find themselves hiring these «quasi-armies» for their own disputes. He added that some units might slip entirely out of control, evoking historical parallels with anarchic «Makhnovshchina»-style movements.