The paramilitary outfit is reportedly employing even more predatory recruitment practices in Russia's prisons amid struggles to find new recruits.
, is reportedly employing increasingly predatory recruitment practices in Russia's prisons as its founder and chief financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin, faces difficulties in finding new hires.
The Russian businessman has for months been spearheading a recruitment drive, offering male prisoners commuted sentences and cash incentives in return for six months of military service in Ukraine. Putin has even secretly pardoned convicts recruited to fight in Ukraine. Lawyer Yana Gelmel told the news outlet that Russian prisoners in colonies located in the Samara and Rostov regions, the Krasnodar Territory, and the regions of the North Caucasus, are being pressured to join the once-shadowy paramilitary unit.
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