"Called on the watch and from there they load on the airfield." Wagner PVC forcibly recruits Russian prisoners to war - media

Wagner's private military company (PEC) forcibly recruits Russian colonies for war against Ukraine, writes Russian online edition of Sota. Journalists published correspondence screens between one of the imprisoned IR-4 in the Republic of Mari El with his ex-girl. He says that Wagner recruits are selected by prisoners who serve as articles such as murder, grievous injuries, robbery and robbery. Video of the day, according to him, in the event of refusal of prisoners to be forcibly.

"They call on the watch, and everything: they load at the funnel - and the airfield," - says the eyewitness. The prisoners, as noted by the publication, promise money and amnesty for half a year of stay at the front.

The export of prisoners from the colonies, according to Sota, is issued as "Stage for conducting investigative actions" on the line of the Investigative Committee (IC) and the Federal Security Service (FSB), whose employees "are currently working in Russia -controlled territories of Ukraine". The recruitment of Russian "Zecs" in the war in Ukraine: what is known that in the Russian colonies there are prisoners for participating in the Wagner War, the media reported since early July.

According to the human rights activist and founder of the Rus Foundation, who sits Olga Romanova, the prisoners were agitated, including personally by Putin oligarch, Yevgeny Prigogin, who owns Wagner PEC. On September 14, a video appeared in Telegram-channels, where a person similar to Prigogine tells the prisoners of one of the Mordovian colonies about Wagner PEC and invites them to go to war in Ukraine.

Prigogine promises to be prisoners that in half a year they will be able to get pardon, and the dead will be "buried on the heroes. " "There are no options to return to the area," says Prigogine. In the case of desertion, Prigogine threatened with shootings. The press service of Concord, which is owned by Prigogine, in response to the request of the RTVI TV channel called the man in the video "awful" on the businessman.