After male prisoners, why not female prisoners. The paramilitary organization Wagner plans to recruit female prisoners in Russian prisons and send them to fight in Ukraine, its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is widely believed to be close to Vladimir Putin, said Wednesday. “Not only as nurses or operators, but also in commando teams or sniper teams. We all know that this has already been done en masse,” he said.
The leader of the Wagner group clearly had in mind the female snipers and members of the partisan detachments who fought in World War II and were promoted by Soviet propaganda. “We are working in this direction. There is resistance, but I think we will overcome it,” added Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Mass recruitment in prisons
He responded to a message from a Russian chosen one from the Urals, who claimed that women held in a prison in Nizhny Tagil asked him to be sent to the Ukrainian front to help the Russian army.
In recent months, Wagner has been suspected of recruiting en masse people held in Russian prisons and then sending them to fight on the front lines in Ukraine, despite promises of reduced sentences and attractive rewards.
Since 2014, the group has been accused of serving the interests of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the shadows and committing abuses in many conflict zones, in particular in Syria and in African countries.
Source: Le Parisien
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