Top Putin ally appears to recruit Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine
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, 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. A company owned by Prigozhin issued a sarcastic message appearing to confirm it is him in the footage.
In the video circulating online, a man who appears to closely resemble Prigozhin is seen addressing a crowd of dozens of inmates in the yard of a prison camp. The man in the video promises the prisoners will receive a pardon of their sentences in return for joining Wagner and fighting in Ukraine for six months.
"Who do we need? We only need assault infantry, 60% of my guys are that," the man seen in the video tells the inmates. "After half a year, you go home, having got a pardon."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/top-putin-ally-appears-to-recruit-russian-prisoners-to-fight-in-ukraine/ar-AA11UM8g
More cannon fodder.
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