Hundreds of graves on the edge of a small farming community bear the insignia of Russia's feared Wagner Group — yet some relatives say they did not even know their loved ones had been recruited.
Wagner Group promised pardons for convicts who survived six months fighting in Ukraine — then buried them in Russian graveyardSpace to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.There were around 200 graves at the site on the outskirts of Bakinskaya village, in Krasnodar region, when Reuters visited in late January.abc.net.
The news agency matched the names of at least 39 of the dead there and at three other nearby cemeteries to Russian court records, publicly available databases and social media accounts.Many of the men buried at Bakinskaya were convicts who were recruited by Wagner last year after its founder,, this reporting showed.
Videos and photographs of the graves first appeared on social media channels in the Krasnodar region in December. When Reuters visited the cemetery in January, fences and security cameras were being installed around the plot and another burial was underway.
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