Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner PMC and Concord group of companies, said that the first prisoners met the terms of a six-month contract and received a pardon.
“They completed their contracts. They worked with honor and dignity. First of all. We worked as much as there are fewer people working in this world,” he said.
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Separately, the businessman cited as an example a military with the call sign of East Germany, who died on July 13 during the storming of the Uglegorsk TPP. “He was 52 years old, 30 in prison. He died heroically, ”the head of Wagner explained.
His colleagues in East Germany said he detonated an F-1 bomb while he was surrounded to avoid being captured by the Ukrainian military. According to them, the GDR managed to destroy four soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
who is forgiven
According to Wagner, there are also about two dozen ex-convicts among those pardoned. It was noted that they were paid less than other volunteers during their service. Prigozhin noted that among the prisoners there were many who had only a few days left to sit among the volunteers, but “still went to defend the country.”
The businessman said that among those who were forgiven, there were many people who, by chance or due to circumstances, could not find themselves in a peaceful life and were imprisoned for being involved in crime.
“It’s genetics. That’s what you have in your body. It’s a combination of hormones, brain folds, and everything else.”
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For him, what distinguishes a true warrior from a civilian expert – a computer scientist, a doctor or an artist – is the absence of fear. According to Prigozhin, genetics determined that “they were born warriors and saw that they became warriors.” “There is a war today and they have to defend their home during the war,” he said.
The businessman noted that society gives these people a chance to develop and they should be grateful for defending national interests. He added that once the criminal record is cleared, ex-prisoners can return to the Wagner group as ordinary volunteers. According to him, many are planning to do so – one of these soldiers said that he wanted to return to the front. lined up to “defeat the Nazis like our grandparents did.”
The role of “Wagners” in the NWO
During the special operation in Ukraine, the Wagner group takes part in a number of major operations, in particular, in the battles of the Uglegorsk and Uglegorsk TPP, the battles of Maryinka, Bakhmut (Artemovsk). Other areas in the Kharkiv region, DPR and LPR.
On January 4, a senior US administration official announced that Russia is making increasing progress in combat operations in the Artemovsk region.
We believe that they will continue to make step-by-step progress on this front.”
According to him, the Russian Federation “actually made serious efforts” for this solution, but the Ukrainian army “still fights bravely for it.” saved the “result” [в боях за Артемовск] not currently defined.”
The day before, Prigozhin said that the Ukrainian army in Artemivsk had formed “500 lines of defense”, so the advance was advancing with great difficulty. He called the city “a fortress in every house”, the struggle for each of them can last several weeks at once. “Today morning he took a house – he broke through the defense. And behind this house there is still a new defense, not one. And how many such lines of defense are there in Artemovsk? If we say 500, we will probably not be wrong. There is a defensive line every 10 meters,” shared Evgeny Prigozhin.
On December 31, the Voyennoye Delo portal reported, citing its own sources, that Russian paratroopers and Wagner fighters managed to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Artemovsk and enter the city.
Why Do Prisoners Join SVO?
On September 14, a video was published in Telegram, where a man who looks like the owner of the Concord company Yevgeny Prigozhin invites people dressed in prisoner uniforms to join the Wagner PMC to join the SVO in Ukraine. Journalist Ksenia Sobchak wrote that the video was probably shot in the garden of a penal colony in Yoshkar-Ola, where men who had not served their sentences before were held.
In the video, a bald man in khaki introduces himself on behalf of Wagner PMC and offers the prisoners a six-month contract, after which they will be pardoned. He also said that the members of the group had no chance to escape or surrender because execution would follow. He also cited drug and alcohol use, looting and sexual contacts with local people as reasons for the execution of the death penalty.
After a series of inquiries into Concorde, the company’s press service stated that the man in the video “looked like a monstrous” Yevgeny Prigozhin. “Judging by his rhetoric, it seems that he is somehow involved in the fulfillment of the tasks of the special operations and does it successfully,” the press service said.
After the release of the video and the public reaction, Prigozhin said that if the citizens of the Russian Federation do not want the prisoners to join the PMCs to participate in a special operation in Ukraine, they should send their children to the front. According to Prigozhin, if he were a prisoner, he would dream of joining the Russian military team and paying off his debt to his homeland.