Verstka publishes the story of a woman named Irina who claims to have prevented the Wagner PMC from recruiting her imprisoned husband to take part in the invasion of Ukraine.
The husband allegedly called Irina in mid-August and said that he agreed to participate in the war in Ukraine, for which he was promised a salary and release in six months. The woman notes that it was still a long time before her husband was released on parole, and she was raising a young child.
After that, she realized that her husband was not entering into an official contract with the Ministry of Defense, read on the Internet about the Wagner PMC and consulted with a lawyer — he offered to send complaints about recruitment to several instances at once.
“I wrote everything as it is, in human language,” she says. — On such and such a date, my husband called me and said that they had come to them with a request to sign contracts; I suspect that this is not happening on a voluntary basis; we have a minor child of such and such date of birth; I don’t understand how this service will be credited to him on time, because parole comes after so much, he will be able to replace the unserved part of the punishment after so much; at the moment there is no reason for my husband to be absent from the territory of this colony; I ask you not to allow my husband to be illegally sent to participate in the «special operation». So I wrote, ”says Irina.
By the time the complaints were sent, the husband had not contacted her for several days, but a day later he called her. The wife did not tell the prisoner about the appeals sent, but instead shared her doubts about cooperation with the PMC, and he replied: «I heard you.» Four days later, her husband called her again and told her about the inspection of the Public Monitoring Commission and the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service that had taken place in the colony.
“He told me: “Calm down. We are all on the ground, no one is going anywhere, everything is fine with everyone. And let's finish there playing tricks on the authorities, «says Irina. — I asked: «What, they didn't even close you in the ShIZO?» He replied: “No, they didn’t. I refused, I'm fine. As for whether others will, I don't know. But, as far as I know, so far everything is in place: no one agreed and did not leave this colony. I understand that at first everyone was inspired by this idea, and then they thought about it and decided to refuse. Apparently, they calmly passed this refusal, without pressure and pressure.”
She notes that if her husband signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense, she would not be against sending him to the war in Ukraine.
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“We were promised that six months and an amnesty.” Mediazona spoke with a prisoner who joined the Wagner PMC
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