The Wagner murders shock the population of Russia – Dagsevin

The Russian Wagner Group is a private military mercenary company owned by billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin. Many mercenaries are recruited from Russian prisons in exchange for promises of amnesty if the six months of war in Ukraine continue.

Although many perished in the war, many who survived made it back to Russia. Two of them are now suspected of killing a mentally handicapped man and an 85-year-old woman, respectively, according to the newspaper. Watchman.

Both soldiers are said to have been in prison for murder before they went to Ukraine.

Thousands are waiting for pardon

Wagner head Claimed at the end of March this year As a result of the war, as many as 5,000 prisoners were pardoned. Thousands of Russian convicts who fought in the war in Ukraine are set to be pardoned, with Putin’s approval, according to a British intelligence.

According to The Guardian, the Russian population now fears more violent attacks.

The 85-year-old Russian woman was reportedly killed with an ax in her home by a returning soldier at the end of March, writes the newspaper, which refers to a local TV channel.

Shaken by the murder’s survivors, they say both President Vladimir Putin and Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin are personally responsible for the killing, as they allow convicted killers to move freely in society.

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They chased and stabbed

The 38-year-old, who was also said to have been killed this week by a Wagner soldier, according to the sources the Guardian spoke to, was a peaceful man who was well-liked in the local community. The newspaper wrote that his hometown is in shock now, after a video was posted in the channels of the messaging service Telegram. In the video, the mentally disabled man was allegedly chased, kicked and stabbed to death by what police suspect was a Wagner soldier. According to the report, the man will now be arrested local media.

About a year after the outbreak of war, Wagner’s chief announced that they were no longer recruiting mercenaries from Russian prisons.

According to British intelligence, the Wagner Group must have already struggled to get people to enlist in December last year. They refer to data from the Russian prison service.

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British intelligence believes that the stories about the brutal conditions in which Wagner’s soldiers are involved, and are exposed to, may have reached prisons, but they believe that the main reason behind Wagner’s cessation of recruitment is to increase the competition between them and the Russian Ministry of Defense.

according to Watchman The Wagner group did not want to provide information on how many convicts it had recruited for the war, but figures from Russia’s prison service show the prison population fell by 20,000 between August and November last year. It is the largest drop in the number of inmates in more than ten years.

The Wagner Group has previously been involved in conflicts in a number of countries. The group is accused of committing war crimes in Syria, Libya and Mali.

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– is no longer a killer

American Thought Center Institute for the Study of War He has previously written about what is supposed to be Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s philosophy of recruiting mercenaries from Russian prisons.

According to the think tank, Prigozhin is said to have stated:

– Russians would rather see an inmate die in war than see his relative.

– If a murderer survives the war, he is no longer a murderer, but a warrior.

There are now many Russian organizations working on human rights and violence in intimate relationships, and they fear that women who have experienced violence will now have to go into hiding. This is what Inna Sangadzieva, Head of the Europe and Central Asia Department of the Norwegian Helsinki Commission, said The daily newspaper:

– Those who come back are of course very traumatized after having fought in Potsja, Irpen or Bakhmut. Another thing is that they bring guns home, which is a problem. This is a huge threat to society, and we have seen that there is a significant increase in violence and crime in Russian society.

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It is forbidden to criticize the soldiers

according to Watchman Putin signed a law earlier this year that makes it a criminal offense to publicly criticize Wagner’s soldiers. It is also punishable to write negative things about them.

So many of Wagner’s soldiers now feel above the law. They refer to Wagner’s director’s statements. He is said to have said the following:

The police should treat you with respect. If they are unreasonable… I will call them myself and arrange matters with the governors and the like. We will find the solution.

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