Dozens of Russian draftees were reportedly rounded up in the middle of the night and driven across the border to Ukraine’s Luhansk region, where they say they were locked in an old factory and “sold” like cattle to the notorious Wagner Group.
, which spoke with family members and reviewed text and audio messages from some of the men. All in all, more than 100 draftees were allegedly scooped up in the bizarre bait and switch.
“They’re already herding us around at gunpoint, that’s it, the turning of the screws has started. Representatives of Wagner arrived with weapons, there are about 30 of them,” one of the soldiers was quoted telling his family by phone.Some of the draftees were forced to sign contracts with Wagner, but told they would be forming their own private military group called the “Wolves,” according to the report.
Bizarrely, the former president of the Russian-backed “republic” of South Ossetia allegedly arrived to help break the resistance of those who refused to sign contracts. Widely circulated video purportedly shows Anatoly Bibilov cursing out the dissenters.
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