At least 6,000 prisoners in Ukraine were recruited in Russian colonies - the media

According to journalists, convicted in the colonies propose to sign a contract and threatening to send for the war for free. At least 2036 prisoners could already be referred to areas of combat clashes. Of the 37 Russian colonies, at least 5786 people were recruited as a reserve for Russian troops in Ukraine. At the same time, at least 2036 prisoners were taken to the area where the front line passes. This was reported by "Important Stories", citing their own sources.

Journalists are trying to calculate the number of Russian convicts who are in the Wagner CHC. Human rights defenders and publications in the press are taken into account. According to information, some of the PEC recruiters came to some penitentiary institutions several times. A relative of one of the convicts from the St. Petersburg IR-7 "Yablunovka" said that they came to the war for three times.

Now the convicted persons put an ultimatum: either they sign a contract and go to the war for money, or later they will be sent there, but already any payment. Olga Romanova, who manages the human rights project "Sitting Rus", said that people were taken out of the colony of Fornosovo in the Leningrad region at least twice. According to her, at least 11,000 prisoners could be recruited in prisons in the Russian Federation and about 3,000 to fight in Ukraine.

According to the human rights activist, she receives a report on the recruitment of hundreds of Russian convicts every day, while the number he had been walking for tens. We will remind that in Kadiyivka of the Luhansk region the barracks where the mercenaries were located. Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky reported that the destroyed building was based on the Wagner PVC group.