Prigozhin: From the "PMC Wagner" you can leave either for retirement or in the coffin

A video appeared on the network on which the businessman close to Vladimir Putin and one of the creators of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin talks with Russian prisoners who took part in the hostilities in Ukraine. All four interlocutors Prigozhin, as can be seen on the record, lost limbs in the war.

Baza reports that in return for the trip to the war, prisoners received a pardon. At the same time, one of them, as follows from a conversation with Prigozhin, was convicted of a serious crime, having received 23 years in prison, of which he served only ten. “Previously, you were a violator, and now the hero of the war,” Prigozhin tells him, adding that “those who have been taught all their lives ( apparently, fight. - approx. RS ) - they are draping, and those whom no one taught - go forward, do not care.”

Two other prisoners say on the record that after prosthetics they are going to return to Wagner PMCs. To this Prigozhin replies that from the company "you can only leave for old -age pension, or in a zinc coffin."

Where and when the video is made - it is not reported.

In the spring, after several military defeats of the Russian army in Ukraine, the Wagner PMC began to recruit Russian prisoners and send them to war. Evgeny Prigozhin personally is engaged in recruiting, for this he visited over ten colonies in different areas of the country. Convicts who agree to take part in the hostilities should stay at the front line for six months, they are forbidden to retreat and surrender under the threat of execution. Those who will remain alive in six months later, promise pardon. In September, the publication "Important Stories" reported that in this way PMCs recruited almost six thousand prisoners.

• The Wagner PMC is a Russian unofficial military unit that does not appear on the balance of military departments and in the register of legal entities, but its fighters take part in ground operations in Syria, Africa and in the war in Ukraine. The organization is considered one of the most combat -ready units participating in battles in Ukrainian territories. At the same time, the fighters of the group are suspected of committing numerous war crimes.
• One of the creators and sponsors of the "PMC of Wagner", as he himself admitted, is the Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin close to Vladimir Putin. Recently, he publicly and sharply criticizes the highest ranks of the Russian Ministry of Defense - it is assumed that with approval in the Kremlin.