Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and the head of PMC «Wagner» Dmitry Utkin «the other day» visited IK-15 Bataysk, Rostov region, a prisoner of the colony told Vot Tak. According to him, both arrived on Prigozhin's personal helicopter, and before their visit, the administration of the institution «was tense» and turned off the video recorders of the FSIN employees.
According to the prisoner, Prigozhin gathered them on the parade ground and said that he was looking for » killers and robbers, «and also told how he» cut blacks in Africa.
“Once there, do whatever you want with the Ukrainians, you won’t get anything for it,” a prisoner close to Putin quoted a businessman close to Putin.
Prigozhin promised the prisoners an amnesty after six months of service, but warned that for drug use, attempted escape or surrender, they would face the death penalty. According to the prisoner, “a huge queue lined up” to sign up for the Wagner PMC: out of the 1,500 convicts, according to him, about half decided to sign up for the war.
The prisoner confirmed the information about the visit of Prigozhin and Utkin one colony in the Rostov region, who asked not to indicate its number.
The first reports that Wagner PMCs were recruiting prisoners to go to war appeared in early July. Mediazona found out that Yevgeny Prigozhin himself traveled to Russian colonies, and talked with a prisoner who joined the group. In August, 44-year-old Yevgeny Eremenko was buried in Petrozavodsk, who died on July 24 near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, although he had eight more years to go. .jpg» class=»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />«We were promised that six months — and an amnesty.» Mediazona spoke with a prisoner who joined Wagner PMC