PMC Wagner group has stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine according to the group’s founder notably Wagner began recruiting prisoners in Russia sprawling penal system in summer last year while offering convicts a pardon if they survived six months in Ukraine.
The renowned Russian mercenary organization says it’s stopped recruiting mercenaries from prisons to fight in the Ukraine war convicts that U.S intelligence believes represent the vast majority of forty thousand Wagner has deployed there the genetic Wagner’s founder Evgeni pagosian seen here in a recent video granting freedom to convicts who served out their mercenary contracts progression made the announcement in a social media post Thursday responding to questions from a Russian media Outlet he also said his company would continue to fulfill its obligations to those currently working for it
