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The Russian paramilitary Wagner Group widely recruited from prisons starting in 2022, growing their forces by an estimated 40,000. [2] [3] According to the New York Times, Wagner's prison recruitment campaign began in early July 2022, when Prigozhin personally appeared in prisons around St. Petersburg and offered deals to the prisoners. [4]
The Kremlin denies any connection to the group, but the prison recruitment video is some of the clearest recent evidence showing a connection. The Wagner Group may very well not be the only ...
Wagner Group units are playing a prominent role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, recruiting prison convicts for bloody ground assaults around Bakhmut. In Africa, the Wagner Group has deployed to ...
The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner [9] (ЧВК «Вагнер»), [66] is a Russian state-funded [67] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin.
Penal squads ‘just meat,’ Storm-Z soldier says
In early 2023, Prigozhin announced that Wagner had ceased recruiting prisoners [31], which the British Defence Ministry interpreted as a governmental ban on such practices. It was expected to diminish Wagner's fighting capacity. [32]
The Wagner Group was founded in 2014 by Prigozhin, 61, a close confidant of the Russian president who is known as “Putin’s chef” because his catering business routinely won contracts to ...
The rivalry between Yevgeny Prigozhin, the then-head of the Wagner Group, and Sergei Shoigu, a member of the leadership of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence (MoD), began in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine [2] which ultimately led to the Wagner Group rebellion on the 23rd and 24th of June 2023.