Contributions on the border and the future of the PMC "Wagner". The main thing from Putin's meeting with "military commissars"

In the territories border with Ukraine, conscripts will continue to serve. This was stated by Vladimir Putin at a press conference with the "military commissars". Border regions are under fire, it is known about several cases of the death of conscripts.

“In those territories where the armed forces are standing, they ensure security, of course, they (conscripts. - approx. Ed.) There are present there, and therefore, in the event of a threat, they must fulfill their sacred duty to the homeland and protect the Fatherland,” Putin said.

He also added that the conscripts were attacked from the Ukrainian side. “I was talking with the commander of the battalion who fought in the Belgorod direction. I asked him how many mobilized you have, and how many recruits. He says - all conscripts. No mobilized, in general. Battalion commander! I ask: “How did the guys behave?” Brilliantly! No one trembled. In general, no one trembled, ”the president said. At the same time, he noted that there is no need to send conscripts to war.

Earlier, “important stories” wrote that Russian conscripts die under shelling at the border with Ukraine. Putin promised that they would not be involved in war.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Sverdlovsk Region, Tatyana Merzlyakova, reported on June 6 about the death of three conscripts from the Sverdlovsk region during the shelling in the Belgorod region. “The guys underwent training. From the controlled projectile, which got into the bus with the soldiers-roots, three children were killed, seven were injured, two of them were difficult, ”she wrote on her page in VKontakte.

PMC "Wagner" and the Ministry of Defense

In addition, Putin said that PMCs who are fighting at the front should conclude contracts from the Ministry of Defense.

“First - you need to conclude contracts from the Ministry of Defense. The second is to amend the laws. Both will be done, ”the president said.

The head of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin on June 11 said that he would not sign contracts from the Ministry of Defense. He added that his organization will already agree on his actions through General Sergei Surovikin.

Pardoning fighters of PMC "Wagner"

Putin for the first time confirmed that he signed decrees on the pardon of prisoners - participants in the war. He also admitted that there are relapses after the Wagnerians who conquered are returning from Ukraine, and believes that these cases should be punished by law.

The journalist and member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights Eva Merkacheva said that the prisoners were released by the presidential secret decree. Soon this was confirmed by journalist Andrei Zakharov, who found information about decree in a closed police database.

In May, “important stories” studied the biographies of the prisoners who died in Ukraine recruited in the Wagner PMC, and talked with the victims of their crimes, relatives and friends.