You only leave the Wagner group dead, says its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin

A video appeared on the Internet in which businessman close to Vladimir Putin and one of the founders of the private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, talks to Russian prisoners who took part in the war in Ukraine. All four of Prigozhin’s interlocutors, as can be seen from the video, have suffered amputations of their limbs.

The Baza website reports that the prisoners were pardoned for fighting in Ukraine. In fact, one of them, as deduced from the conversation with Prigozhin, had been sentenced for a heinous crime to a prison sentence of 23 years, of which he served 13.

“Before you were a criminal, while now you are a war hero”, Prigozhin tells him, adding that “those who were taught all their lives (to fight – ss), are cowards, while those who were not taught by anyone, advance ahead and they don’t care.”

Two other inmates say in the video that after the artificial limbs they were fitted with they are preparing to return to the private company Wagner. In his statement, Prigozhin responds by saying that “you can leave the company either with a pension due to old age or in a coffin”.

Where and when this video was shot is not mentioned.

In the spring, after some defeats of the Russian army in Ukraine, the private company Vagner began to recruit Russian prisoners into its ranks and send them to war.

Yevgeny Prigozhin personally deals with their recruitment, who for this purpose has visited more than 10 prisons in different regions of the country.

Prisoners who agree to fight must remain for six months at the front line, and under threat of execution they are forbidden to retreat or surrender. To those who remain alive after six months, they are promised a pardon. In September the website Vaznie istorii wrote that in this way the Wagner organization has recruited almost 6,000 prisoners.

The private company Wagner is a Russian unofficial military organization, which is not under the relevant ministries or registered in the register of legal entities, but its fighters participate in military operations in Syria, African countries and Ukraine. The organization is considered one of the best combat units fighting in Ukraine. However, its fighters are suspected of committing numerous war crimes. One of the founders of Wagner, as he himself recently admitted, is businessman from St. Petersburg Yevgeny Pirgozin, who is in the close circle of Vladimir Putin. In recent times, Prigozhin has been publicly and sharply criticizing the top leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense and, as many analysts believe, with the approval of the Kremlin.

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