- A video of the transfer of these prisoners to a Wagner group base is broadcast.
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| Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum, in Vladivostok, Russia |
Putin sends 400 criminals without military training to Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is changing course, according to the events of the last few weeks. The Ukrainian counteroffensive is recovering more and more ground invaded by Russia and doubts are beginning to arise in the Kremlin.
That is why the Putin regime is resorting to increasingly desperate measures to straighten its course in Ukraine. One of these is the almost forced recruitment of prisoners to send them to the front.
This Friday a video was broadcast on social networks in which the transfer of 400 prisoners from the Tambov region, without military training, to one of the camps of the Wagner group, the neo-Nazi ideology mercenaries at the service of the Moscow regime. , before being shipped to Ukraine.
As reported by the Mirror, prisoners have been warned that deserters will be summarily "shot", but Putin will pardon those who survive six months and allow them to resume their lives regardless of the nature of their crimes.
Baza reports that >8 prison transport trucks are transporting 400 prisoners in Tambov to a training area in southern Russia (possibly Wagner’s base in Molkino) likely before going to Ukraine. They say 10-12 prison trucks were seen in Belgorod last night. https://t.co/Cv3fMZcwEH pic.twitter.com/d7QBuN6YZ1
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) September 16, 2022
The man in charge of the campaign to recruit prisoners as fighters in Wagner's private army is Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, a close friend of Putin, who has responded to internal criticism over the prisoner recruitment.
"Those who don't like this, send their own sons to the front. It's the PMC (Private Military Company) and the prisoners or your sons. You decide," Prigozhin said.
Putin has so far refused to launch a large-scale mobilization under which all men over the age of 18 could be sent to war, but there are rumors that he is about to announce a partial mobilization in certain regions of the country.
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