The prisoners of the Russian colonies recruited by Wagner's PMC to participate in the war with Ukraine begin to return to their native places. Now they are free and with medals. “Important stories” identified five of them (the “agency” paid attention to three a little earlier) and restored the details of the biographies. Former prisoners returned home after six months of service.

The Norwegian court decided to confiscate from the Russians $ 7.1 million of criminal income (72 million Norwegian crowns). The news about this spread without an indication of whose money the Norwegian authorities confiscate.

Updated: On the evening of January 5, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia wants to use a truce to stop the promotion of the Armed Forces and deliver its military, equipment and ammunition closer to Ukrainian positions.

The prisoners of Russian colonies recruited by the Wagner PMC to participate in the war with Ukraine begin to return to their native places. Now they are free and with medals. “Important stories” identified some of them and restored the details of the biographies. Former prisoners returned home after six months of service. According to the creator of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin, at the front they finally “took up their favorite thing” and, now, after 180 days “worked out a contract”.

On January 4, the governor of the Samara region, Dmitry Azarov, went to the hospital in occupied Makeyevka, Donetsk region, to visit those mobilized who came under fire on January 2 . The result of the shelling was the largest single loss of Russian troops during the entire war, which was recognized by the Russian Ministry of Defense (89 people, in reality the figure could be much higher ).