A recruitment that looks like blackmail. According to information from our colleagues at franceinfo to avoid a shortage of fighters, the Wagner group recruits in Russian prisons in exchange for reduced sentences.
Indeed, after more than 4 months of war in Ukraine, Russia seems to be facing a shortage of manpower and is seriously lacking in manpower. Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have decreed general mobilization, so he struggles to ensure a rotation of troops in combat.
Needs in the donbass
Still according to franceinfo, the prisoners who accept will go to fight in the Donbass, the main front of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. This Sunday again, a Russian strike hit a building in Chassiv Iar, north of Donetsk.
According to journalist Julia Krasnikova, of the online media Vajnie istorii, who has collected numerous testimonies, it is clear that the Wagner group is in the “recruitment” phase. The militia would campaign in particular in the prison of Obukhovo in Saint-Petersburg.
Moreover, Western military sources confirm that most of the Russian fighters present on the Ukrainian Donbass front are either Chechens or auxiliaries recruited by Wagner.