Head of Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin And according to the intelligence services of the United Kingdom, the experience is being repeated, but it will not be he who will once again be in charge of selecting Russian prisoners, for whom going to war will be their best chance to regain freedom. condition and fill in the blanks.
Britain’s intelligence services say Russia is back to its old ways and has “intensified a program to recruit Russian prisoners.”
“Since the beginning of 2023, the Russian Defense Ministry has accelerated a program to recruit Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine. 10,000 defectors are likely to have signed up in April alone,” the Defense Ministry said on its Twitter Wrote on the account.
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“Since the summer of 2022, the prisoners were a major source of recruits for the operations in Ukraine of the private military company Wagner Group,” recalls the British. However, they say that “the group lost access to the Russian criminal system in February 2023, at the height of its public dispute with the Defense Ministry.”
My Yevgeny Prigozhin It was announced at the time that “the recruitment of prisoners by the Wagner group has been completely stopped.” His confrontation with the Defense Minister, sergei shoigu They come from behind and their relentless indictments against military strategy in Ukraine seem to know no bounds.
This behavior added to his verbal incontinence and the dangers and challenges Kremlin have completely lost their influence in Putin that he would now see her more as a problem than a solution to the seemingly endless war.
UK Defense says that “the Russian prisoner recruitment program is part of a wider in-depth effort by the Russian military to increase its membership while trying to avoid a new compulsory mobilization, which would be highly unpopular with the Russian population”. ”
Thus, he warned that Russia is likely to face «Worst labor shortage» in the decades. Putin called up reservists and included young people practically trying to leave Russia to avoid being sent to the front.
