A video has emerged appearing to show a top ally of Vladimir Putin personally recruiting alleged Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine and offering them pardons to do so.
Yevgeny Prigozhin gestures at the Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 9, 2016.A video has emerged appearing to show a top ally of Vladimir Putin personally recruiting alleged Russian prisoners toYevgeny Prigozhin, who runs Wagner, a private military company heavily engaged in Ukraine, is purportedly seen speaking to a group of men at a Russian prison about joining its forces in Ukraine.
"The first sin is desertion. No one falls back, no one surrenders as a prisoner," the man seen in the video says. "Those who arrive and on the first day say, 'I shouldn't be here,' we mark as a deserter and next, it's the firing squad."Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP, FILE They look closely at those with drug and sexual violence convictions, warning that there is no tolerance for looting or sex with local people, "women, local flora, fauna, men," the man in the video says.
In a written response posted on its VKontakte, or VK -- Russian social media service -- page, it wrote: "We really can confirm that the person in the video is miraculously similar to Evgeny Viktorovich [Prigozhin]. Judging by his rhetoric, he is in someway dealing with questions of the realisation of the Special Operation and, it looks like, it's going successfully for him," it wrote, referring to the term the Kremlin uses for the invasion.
Wagner has previously been used in global conflicts, including in Ukraine, when the Kremlin has sought a veneer of deniability.
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