MSOpinion Russia’s ‘disposable soldiers’ fighting for Bakhmut “The Russian mercenary then says he joined Wagner one month earlier and received training in three different places, including a Russian-occupied area in eastern Ukraine” READ:
“The Russian mercenary then says he joined Wagner one month earlier and received training in three different places, including a Russian-occupied area in eastern Ukraine”
Ukrainian officials say Prigozhin has been sending thousands of soldiers recruited in Russian prisons to the front line, with the promise of a salary and an amnesty. “These soldiers — with no experience — are sent towards our guns and stay there for a few minutes,” Anton, nickname “Polyak,” told AFP.“Their job is to advance towards us, forcing us to fire on them, to reveal our positions,” said Sergiy, a major in the 53rd brigade.‘Number of your prison’
The Russian mercenary then says he joined Wagner one month earlier and received training in three different places, including a Russian-occupied area in eastern Ukraine.AFP could not independently confirm the contents of the video.The mercenary group emerged in 2014 in Ukraine and is suspected by the West of doing the Kremlin’s dirty work in countries like Syria and the Central African Republic — a charge that Russia has always denied.
Experts say recruiting prisoners is a sign of weakness by Moscow, following battlefield setbacks and the huge controversy surrounding the drafting of around 300,000 Russian citizens. “The Russians are exhausting themselves without managing to surround or destroy enemy positions,” said Mykola Bielieskov from Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies.
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