No one is responsible for them: the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation does not control the mercenaries of the Wagner group - Gerasimov
This response from Gerasimov was received by the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Yevgeny Stupin. According to Gerasimov, the mercenaries of the Wagner group are not part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and therefore do not obey the General Staff. "An organization called Wagner PEC does not include the structure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," the document said.
It should be noted that MP Stupin wrote in Telegram that Mosmyskduum began to receive reports from the Russians whose relatives became the mercenaries of the Wagner Group, concluding a contract and then disappearing. It was not possible to find them, so it was decided to contact Gerasimov. He stated that the Ministry of Defense of the aggressor country could not help.
"In fact, it is very bad that people get into a legal vacuum, it is very difficult to know something about them with relatives," the deputy wrote. Earlier, Focus wrote that the head of the Wagner group Yevgeny Prigogin stated that in Putin's administration, many were waiting for Russia to defeat Russia in the war. According to the leader of the Wagner Group, a large number of Kremlin officials think only that Russia will lose the war as soon as possible, and that Americans come "and adjust us.