A recruitment that looks like blackmail. According to information from our colleagues at France Infoto avoid a shortage of fighters, the Wagner group recruits in Russian prisons in exchange for remission. Indeed, after more than four months of war in ukraine, Russia seems to be facing a shortage of manpower and is sorely lacking in manpower. The Russian President Vladimir Poutine would not have decreed general mobilization, so he struggled to ensure a rotation of troops in combat.
Needs in the donbass
Still according to France Info, the prisoners who accept will go to fight in the Donbass, the main front of the invasion. Russian 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.