News about the entry into the Russian Guard of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner” are rumors, nothing can be said about it. me on this one telegram channel said Alexander Khinshtein, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications.
“There is talk of PMCs joining the Russian Guard and it cannot be,” he wrote
According to the deputy, former PMC fighters have the opportunity to voluntarily contract individually, and “the structural absorption of PMCs by the Russian Guard is impossible by definition.”
On November 1, the 59.ru portal, citing a representative of the organization in the Perm region, reported that the son of the founder of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner” Pavel Prigozhin. happened Head of the Wagnerites as part of the Russian Guard.
Ramzan Kadyrov, formerly president of Chechnya reportedMore than 170 former fighters of the Wagner PMC went to serve in the Chechen special forces Akhmat.
Putin before named Evgeniy Prigozhin “a man with a difficult fate and a talented businessman.”