The fighters who joined Wagner have been promised pardons if they survive their deployments
Prigozhin said all “obligations” towards prisoners who joined up with the group were being fulfilled.Article content
Olga Romanova, head of the prison rights group Russia Behind Bars, this week quoted sources at several Russian prisons as saying that Wagner’s recruitment drive has effectively ground to a halt. Officials from the defence ministry have reportedly picked up the baton in recruiting the prisoners, however.
“Now it’s just them who are taking people away to war. The first group of prisoners recruited by the ministry of defence left for the front line from the colony in Kemerovo on Sunday.”
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