"Wagner" recruiters began to come to Russian colonies in second round, - Russian media
As reported by Censor.NET, the Russian publication "Mediazona" writes about this.
Convicts told the publication that now recruitment takes place in a less solemn atmosphere: the entire colony no longer lines up on the square, and Prigozhin does not fly in by helicopter.
So, in December, prisoners went to a meeting with a recruiter in the Bashkir VK-16 of their own accord.
"When he began to tell that now yours are being released and they need a replacement, a discussion began between him and the inmates. And one particular one, as they say in prison, hit him in the eyes and asked: "How many percent of ours are left alive, who went?" At this he began to be puzzled, could not answer anything and ended his speech altogether," says the interlocutor. According to him, if the first time more than a thousand people left the entire region, then the second time - only 340.
In VK-4 in Plavsk near Tula, the second recruitment of volunteers took place in November, another convict said. According to his assessment, the first time about 300 people signed up for the war, and the second time - half as many.
Human rights defender and former political prisoner Ivan Astashin wrote that recruiters are again coming to the camps in Mordovia: "For the second time, representatives of the "Wagner" PMC visited VK-10 of the special regime, where this time about 60 convicts enrolled in the ranks of Prigozhin's army."
"Last time (at the end of last year), a person who is near Bakhmut contacted me. He said that he regretted going there. He said that 20% of those who left here are alive," says one of the interlocutors of "Mediazona".
Against this background, the media associated with Prigozhin began to talk about prisoners who survived in Ukraine and returned to freedom. In some colonies, recruiters promised to bring inmates for agitation.
