Wagner, a former employee of the private military company (PMC), talked about his meeting with the company’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in one of the Russian colonies. His words were reflected on the news portal “E1.RU”.
According to the former prisoner, he met Prigozhin in December last year while serving a prison sentence in a colony, where he was later visited by the PMC founder to recruit new recruits to later join the Russian special operation in Ukraine.
As the speaker noted, Prigozhin directly announced to the prisoners that most of them would not return home after participating in a special military operation (SVO), but that they would be granted amnesty.
The man also revealed the details of the PMC selection process. You had to do 40 push-ups and 40 squats to get there.
The Russian, who successfully passed the test, went to the SVO region even though his prison sentence ended in a month. He returned home without his legs and is now waiting for prosthetics.
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