In Simferopol, invaders recruit criminal criminals for war against Ukraine - media

According to the human rights activist, special attention will be attracted by recruiters to those prisoners who serve their sentences for particularly serious crimes in the colonies of the strict regime. "We received the first signals in March last year, when the citizens of Ukraine who were in the Russian Federation reported that people Prigogine were recruiting people to participate in hostilities against Ukraine," Skripnik said.

The spokeswoman said that there are also isolated cases of recruiting by the Russians for the war of political prisoners. According to journalists of the Russian edition "Important Stories", all convicts are offered to go to the war for a period of 6 months. They are promised a salary of about 200 thousand rubles a month. For injuries - 300 thousand rubles, and in the case of death - 5 million rubles to relatives. At the same time, prisoners immediately warn that some of them will survive.

But for those who survive, they promise a pardon. We will remind, on January 12 in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russians recruit former military and employees of law enforcement agencies to private military companies in Crimea. According to the command, the occupied peninsula announced a recruitment of new PVCs "Shield" and "Rusich".

Potential candidates are promised by cash and they say that they will not participate in hostilities in the territory of Ukraine. Earlier, on January 11, political scientist Mykola Davidyuk told Focus that the Russian opposition is afraid of the collapse of Russia and wants to preserve Crimea no less than Putin.