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After Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private military company (PMC) Wagner, who has already recruited 30 thousand convicts, the Russian military commissars will go and take the rest. This was announced today, on November 13, on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel by a Russian journalist, director of the Rus’ Sidiashchaya Foundation, Olga Romanova.
“We are waiting for this set after the adoption of the law by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the mobilization of people with a criminal record, including for serious crimes. In the colony, which PMC “Wagner” has already walked several times with its comb, the military commissars will come and take away the rest. Taking into account the fact that PMC Wagner has already taken 30,000 people, I think they will be able to recruit another 250,000,” she said.
The journalist said that at the time of the start of the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24, half a million people were in Russian prisons.
“Minus women – 8%, minus 30 thousand already recruited, as well as minus the elderly and the disabled. Everything else can be taken,” she said.
According to Romanova, Russian prisoners are promised the same payments and guarantees as those who were mobilized, but in fact, Wagner PMC would rather finish off these people than give them money.
“We see “advertising payments” when 5 million rubles are solemnly handed to another widow under the camera. Such cases are few and can be counted on the fingers. Basically, Wagner PMC is interested in ensuring that no one returns from Ukraine. Prisoners are mostly lonely people. Yes, they have distant relatives, children they don’t know much about. And when they are taken away, they write that they would like these people to receive a salary: such and such, living there and there. The people whom the prisoners trust to take the money are not informed about it. If the prisoners themselves do not inform them, then no one informs them. If a prisoner gets out of the battle alive and is wounded, then just a sledgehammer will come into play,” summed up Olga Romanova.
