INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Bakhmut.Responding to a press inquiry claiming that Russian inmates have not been recruited into Wagner for more than a month, Prigozhin
recruiters returned to Russian prisons this winter, after reports of convicts being sent to their deaths on the battlefield filtered back
into prisons.The two independent news websites said Wagner started threatening reluctant inmates with new prison sentences for refusing to
These include thousands of Russian convicts who were promised pardons and early release from jail in exchange for signing six-month
Defense Ministry had also started recruiting prisoners for the war in Ukraine."If the [Defense Ministry] takes over that source of manpower,
Wagner's size and capabilities will be reduced
Institute, tweeted Thursday.
