Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group, addressed a group of men with blurry faces, allegedly offering an amnesty to the first group of Russian prisoners in exchange for fighting in Ukraine for their release. | The fountain: AFP
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The first group of Russian prisoners of war were amnestied and released after fighting in Ukraine, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, whose fighters fight on the front lines alongside Moscow troops, said on Thursday.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, considered close to President Vladimir Putin and an active communicator since the beginning of the offensive in Ukraineappeared in the video in the company of men with pixelated faces.
“They worked until the end of their contract. They worked honestly, with dignity,” he said in this video broadcast by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Prigogine also urged Russian society to “treat with the greatest respect” these men, who fought for six months in exchange for their freedom.
“Don’t drink too much, don’t take drugs, don’t rape women, don’t do stupid things,” Prigogine, also a former prisoner turned businessman, tells them.
troops Wagner They are specially placed at the front in Bakhmut, a city that Russian troops have been trying to capture since the summer and where both sides are suffering heavy losses.
Before the conflict in Ukrainemercenaries of this paramilitary group were stationed in Syria, Libya and a number of African countries.
Offer to prisoners
In September, a video appeared on social networks, in which a man, very similar to Prigozhin, in the prison yard invites prisoners to fight in Ukraine.
“If they come to Ukraine and you decide that this is not for you, we will consider it desertion and execute you. Questions, guys? ”, – sounded in the video.
He also ordered them not to surrender and to carry grenades in case they were captured. “If they die, their bodies will be repatriated to the location they indicated on the form,” the statement said.
Prigozhin’s company Concord neither confirmed nor denied that the man was a businessman.
“If I were a prisoner, I would dream of joining this friendly team in order not only to pay off my debt to the Motherland, but to return it with a vengeance,” Concord quotes Prigozhin.
(According to AFP)
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