đź”’ Russia's Wagner Group resorting to recruiting prisoners from Belarus-Report

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According to the Donday Russian information site, Russia's Interior Ministry has issued a "wanted" notice in the Rostov-on-Don region—located near the Ukraine border—for six members of the notorious Wagner Group who are accused of fleeing between December 21 and 22 from a training center in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.Prigozhin added: "And, believe me, at different levels, starting from the advanced LPR, DPR and the territory of Russia, many villains are being detained, whom you don't even need to know about.The Wagner Group has been recruiting large numbers of prisoners for Putin's war in Ukraine and hiring in penal colonies in Russia, offering male prisoners commuted sentences and cash incentives in return for six months of military service in Ukraine.Vladimir Osechkin, a Russian human rights activist and the head of the Gulagu.net anti-corruption project, a prisoners' rights group, told Newsweek last week that since February 24, as many as 30,000 prisoners have been recruited from jails and deployed to Ukraine, while more than 5,000 have been killed in battle and in the camps of the Wagner Group.Recruitment for the war in Ukraine is taking place in prisons not just in Russia, but also in some countries in Africa, and in Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and even Belarus, Osechkin said, citing his sources."

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