The publication notes that “there have been no such sharp jumps since 2010” and not even during the 2015 mass amnesty.
“The reduction of the prison population occurs against the background of the recruitment of prisoners to participate in the war in the Wagner PMC detachments, which exist altogether outside the legal field,” the journalists emphasized.
they explained. that in August, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service, almost 349 thousand people were held in correctional colonies, and by the beginning of November there were 325 thousand.
“Mediazona” writes that in 2022 the Russian State Duma did not declare an amnesty and did not adopt laws “that were supposed to alleviate the lot of prisoners”, but after the start of the war against Ukraine “appeared in Russia a man who promises freedom in exchange for participating in the war against Ukraine is Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recruits prisoners in the Wagner PMC.
Journalists noted that the number of 23,000 missing prisoners “generally coincides with the assessment of the founder of “Rus Sitting” Olga Romanova: according to her calculations, by the end of October the number of recruited Wagner PMCs exceeded 20,000, and by the middle- November – for 30 thousand.
War of Russia against Ukraine. The same thing (updated)
The BBC’s Russian Service wrote on March 11 that Wagner PMC recruit mercenaries to participate in the war in Ukraine.
Romanova said in late October that PMC creator Yevgeny Prigozhin had already recruited for the war against Ukraine more than 20 thousand prisoners. Participation in the recruitment of prisoners Prigogine receives personally.
Prigogine, for a long time who denied his connection to PMC “Wagner”, September 26 for the first time he admitted that he was really at his origins. When recruiting prisoners to be sent to Ukraine in September, you openly stated this PMC “Wagner” has its own tanks and aircraft of different types – According to him, the mercenaries “have everything” in weapons.
Militants are fighting against Ukraine not only PMC “Wagner”, but also other private military companiessaid the spokesman of the Eastern group of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Cherevaty.
