STORY – Wounded or amputated, the mercenaries of the Russian militia, recruited in prisons by “the cook of Putin”, are required to return to the fight.
“You were a delinquent and now you are a war hero.” On the video, broadcast on a Telegram channel, we recognize Evgueni Prigojine, the boss of the mercenaries of the Wagner group, addressing four young men, visibly recently amputated from a foot or a leg. “You’re going to get prostheses, and what next?”, asks them the one who is nicknamed “Putin’s cook”. – “We plan to go back (at the front, editor’s note)”, assures one of the injured young people, seated with his comrades around a low table. “It’s goodcongratulates Prigozhin. There are two ways to leave Wagner, either by retiring or in a zinc coffin. Other than that, everyone goes back to fighting…” – in other words, even the injured are required to come back online… – “We have nothing to lose”intervenes another man, his stump swaddled in a bandage. – “How many years were you sentenced to”, asks Prigozhin. – “I have already spent ten years in prison and I had thirteen left…
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