![]() The new unit, called “Storm,” is said to offer inmates the same conditions as Wagner: six-month contract, pay, and pardon.īut propaganda material shared by a media group linked to Wagner founder Prigozhin has raised suspicions that the pardons may not be entirely legitimate. according to investigative outlet iStories. The Wagner Group, a Kremlin-linked private military unit led by Putin’s ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been visiting prisons across Russia for weeks in a bid to lure convicted murderers, robbers and even a cannibal to war against Ukraine.Īfter suffering a series of battlefield defeats in recent weeks, Russia’s Defense Ministry decided to throw its hat in the ring and create its own “special unit,” made up of inmates from some of the same prisons that Wagner had targeted. The news comes as Russia’s war effort has been increasingly disrupted this week as the prison-recruitment tactic appears to have become the official new modus operandi. ![]() Russian inmates snatched from prison to fight in Ukraine have begun receiving their promised “pardons” for taking part in the war – but legal experts say the alleged pardons are in fact false.
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