PMC “Wagner” may have released all the prisoners

PMC “Wagner” may have released all prisoners recruited in Russian prisons. This is stated in the investigation of the “Important Histories” publication. According to the publication, now the former prisoners are in hotels in the Krasnodar region and are waiting for the issuance of pardon documents. After that, they can go home.

“Vazhnye istorii” with reference to the closed chat of representatives of the group claim that “Project K” – as the project of recruiting convicts from the colonies into the PMC was called – is closed. According to their relatives, those prisoners who signed a contract with PMC are housed in hotels in Anapa. If they wish, they will be able to extend the contract with PMC “Wagner” in order to go to Belarus or Africa.

Earlier, the Astra Telegram channel wrote that the mercenaries of PMC “Wagner” occupied most of the hotels in Krasnodar. Local residents complained about drunkenness and hooliganism on their part.

On Wednesday, it became known that the fighters of PMC “Wagner” are stationed in Belarus and conduct training of the Belarusian military there. If the reports that the PMC released former prisoners are true, it means that only experienced mercenaries who cooperated with the group before the war in Ukraine, and also signed contracts after it began, remained in its composition.

• After the start of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, with the permission of the Russian authorities, began recruiting prisoners in the colonies to participate in the war. According to estimates, it was possible to recruit tens of thousands. According to Prigozhin himself, about 10,000 former prisoners died in the battles near Bakhmut alone. Those who have not been killed at the front within six months receive a pardon.
• After the escalation of the conflict between Prigozhin and the leadership of the Ministry of Defense at the beginning of this year, the recruitment of prisoners to PMC “Wagner” was stopped.