\u2757\ufe0fOn New Year’s Eve, prigozhin had a meeting with the former prisoners who had \u00abworked out\u00bb their six-month contract with the PMC \u00abWagner\u00bb and informed them about the cancellation of all criminal convictions. Prigozhin called the work of ex-prisoners in the PMC \u00abWagner\u00bb a \u00abvocation\u00bb where \u00abthey did what they love\u00bb and concluded \u00abif there is no war here tomorrow, they should go to Africa and defend RUSSIAN interests there\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u261d\ufe0f From the very beginning of the russian invasion of Ukraine, the \u00abWagner group\u00bb became for putin the most important tool in his aggression against Ukraine. After all, the use of unofficial military units as \u00abcannon fodder\u00bb allowed the kremlin to reduce the level of losses in its official armed forces. The so-called private military company of Wagner is the most revealing example of russia’s use of such armed formations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u203c\ufe0f For a long time, the leadership of the russian federation and putin personally publicly denied the presence of military units of the russian federation on the territory of other country. Today, \u00abWagner\u00bb generally operates without any legal basis, such a company is not officially registered in the register of legal entities either in the russian federation or in any other country. Despite the illegality of the formation, until recently, the PMC \u00abWagner\u00bb was one of the most effective power structures of the kremlin abroad, which was regularly mentioned by the Western journalists, but was kept silent by the russian authorities. \u00abWagner\u00bb was involved by the special services of the russian federation in hostilities in Syria, Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic and Madagascar. In the information space, its activities were disguised under \u00abcovering legends\u00bb: \u00abmilitary personnel on vacation\u00bb, \u00ablost\u00bb, \u00abvolunteers\u00bb, etc. In fact, it is a freelance military unit of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the russian Armed Forces, which is completely under the control of the russian top military-political leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secondly, the \u00abWagner\u00bb turned out to be skilled soldiers, while the combat effectiveness of the russian army in Ukraine turned out to be low. According to the estimates of the representative of the US National Security Council, John Kirby, at the end of December, the \u00abWagner\u00bb group in Ukraine had up to 50,000 people, 40,000 of them consisted of prisoners, of whom about 900 have already died. The prisoners who were in the first group of amnesties were recruited by prigozhin in the first half of the summer, in the colonies of the leningrad and novgorod regions. The PMC \u00abWagner\u00bb is a russian project that participates in ground operations in Syria, Africa and in the war against Ukraine. The company’s fighters are accused of committing numerous war crimes, including extrajudicial executions in Syria, Africa, and the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2753Their biographies vividly speak of the \u00abfavorite business\u00bb of criminal \u00abmusicians\u00bb in Ukraine. Among the prisoners recruited in the colonies, mostly those convicted of various crimes: murders, robberies, forming gangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd38 In 2014, dmytro karyagin was sentenced to 14.5 years in a maximum security prison in Kazan for killing his veteran grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd38 dmytro karavaychyk was sentenced in 2019 to 17 years for creating a criminal group for the production and sale of drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd38 oleksandr suetov was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2020 for organizing a criminal group that robbed jewelry stores in st. petersburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the other fighters of \u00abWagner\u00bb are dan\u0456la saveliev (twice convicted of robbery), denis kinev (a thief with experience, convicted of robbery and murder), anatoliy salmin (also imprisoned for theft, kidnapping and murder), oleksandr nikitin (thief, on account who has at least ten crimes), viktor varnakov (twice convicted of fraud to 13 years in prison)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is still unclear on what grounds the release of these criminals is taking place, and the acts of pardon of the president of the russian federation have not yet been published. That is, in fact, the amnesty of \u00abWagner\u00bb criminals is prigozhin’s personal initiative and another evidence of the degradation of russian statehood, where instead of legal mechanisms in the country, \u00abconceptual\u00bb ones are increasingly used. However, the fiasco of the \u00abWagner\u00bb PMC mercenaries near Bakhmut in Donetsk region will only intensify the split in the russian \u00abelite\u00bb and intensify the struggle for power in the kremlin between the shoigu and prigozhin influence groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2757\ufe0fAlthough prigozhin urged the amnestied \u00abnot to step on a crooked path\u00bb, only a naive average russian can hope that these \u00abbrave\u00bbguys on the \u00abgrazhdanke\u00bb will not return to their \u00abdark deeds\u00bb. After all, the economic situation in russia and mass unemployment do not give such a \u00abcontingent\u00bb any chance to settle down in a peaceful life. In addition, this contingent received in Ukraine \u00abcombat experience\u00bb of torture of the civilian population, looting and the use of weapons, which they will definitely bring home. The only thing the russians can hope for is that the amnestied criminals will return to the PMC, where they will die on Ukrainian soil. According to journalists, all those pardoned have signed new contracts with the PMC and must return to Ukraine in 45 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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