“Wagner PMC Head Prigozhin Releases 40,000 Prisoners in Russia Leading to Crimes: Interview with Political Strategist”

Thanks to Prigozhin, about 40,000 prisoners were released from Russian prisons, some of whom returned to the Russian Federation and again engaged in crime.

The head of the Wagner PMC, Prigozhin, in an interview with political strategist Dolgov, said that after serving in his group, they were released “under 40 thousand prisoners.” This is more than 9% of the total number of prisoners in Russia. According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, at the beginning of the year, 433 thousand people were kept in Russian colonies.writes Agency.

Prigozhin claims that the prisoners who passed through the Wagner PMC committed “less than a hundred” crimes after their release, and the Ministry of Defense and the presidential administration are to blame for the fact that information about these crimes is widely dispersed in the media.

Prigozhin also accused the Ministry of Defense of interrupting the practice in which PMCs were supposed to take back released prisoners to war if they committed crimes.

Prigozhin named the total number of prisoners who passed through PMCs – 50 thousand people, of which about 20%, that is, about 10 thousand, died.

The figures voiced by Prigogine correlate with those that were at the disposal of Western intelligence. At the end of December, according to Washington, 50,000 people fought in the Wagner PMC, of ​​which 40,000 were prisoners. By mid-February, according to US intelligence, the group had lost 9,000 men killed and 30,000 wounded, according to US intelligence data.

The prisoners who served in PMCs began to return home at the beginning of the year. Since then, reports of serious crimes committed by them have become regular. In recent months, at least six such cases have been the subject of intense media attention.

Suspect arrested this week in the rape of two girls aged 10 and 12. The Telegram channel Baza wrote that the detainee was a former PMC fighter. Also in May, in the Volgograd region, three “Wagnerites” who returned from the war were detained on suspicion of robbery and extortion, and in Lipetsk, a former PMC fighter robbed a store.

In April, the media reported that in South Ossetia former PMC mercenary killed a man with cerebral palsyin the same month in the Krasnodar Territory, unknown killed two animators, one of the killers could be released after serving in Prigozhin’s group, wrote the local publication 93.ru and the Telegram channel “112”. In March, in the Kirov region, Ivan Rossomahin, who was imprisoned for murder, was released after serving in Wagner, Ubil pensioner.

PMC “Wagner” began to recruit people in Russian colonies in the summer of 2022. A six-month contract was concluded with each prisoner, after which he was pardoned. In early February of this year, against the backdrop of a conflict with the military, Prigozhin announced that the recruitment of prisoners in PMCs “completely stopped.” Prigozhin, as well as human rights activists, reported that prisoners continue to be recruited in colonies, but now the Ministry of Defense is engaged in this.

Recall earlier Prigogine complained on Putin’s plan, and also recognized the strength and power of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Author: Mark Voroshilov