Having offered convicts a pardon if they survived six months in Ukraine, Wagner Group's founder says the recruitment of prisoners by the military company had 'completely stopped'.
Russia's Wagner mercenary group has stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, Wagner's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Thursday.The military contactor's founder says the recruitment of prisoners had "completely stopped"US intelligence believed Wagner had as many as 40,000 convict fighters in Ukraine in December
"The recruitment of prisoners by the Wagner private military company has completely stopped," Mr Prigozhin said in a response to a request for comment from a Russian media outlet published on social media.
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