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Nearly six months into Russias bloody war against Ukraine, it appears Vladimir Putin has pinned his hopes for claiming victory on a self-described organized crime syndicate that is now trawling prisons for cold-blooded killers and deploying mercenaries to straighten out fed-up troops.
Thats according to several explosive new reports out Thursday by the independent Russian investigative news outlets iStories and The Insider, both of which uncovered disturbing new details about the notorious Wagner Groups alleged role in the war.
After myriad reports in recent weeks that Kremlin-linked businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has been personally touring Russian prisons and promising inmates full amnesty if they fight for Wagner in Ukraine, a staffer at a high-security penal colony in the Tula region has revealed the real reason behind the desperate recruiting drive.
Identified only as Ivan, the staffer told The Insider that Prighozhin had visited personally on July 24 and told inmates the regular Russian military was weakening and cannot cope with the war.
Prighozin said hed been given an order by President Putin to use all possible resources to win the war, Ivan was quoted saying.
He called his organization an organized crime group and talked a lot about the advantage of participating in war through them. Honestly, I thought it was a surrealistic dream. A man who had a Hero of Russia star pinned to his T-shirt, was telling us loud and clear about what was going on in our country. That gangsters are really in power and they dont give a fuck about any human rights organizations like Gulagu.net or the Committee of Soldiers Mothers, he said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-calls-in-organized-crime-syndicate-to-shake-up-failing-army-in-ukraine?ref=home
Who's surprised? Just like the Slobfather, Putin, ex-GRU, is a mobster
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,816 posts)These are not warriors. Many will be destroyed and many more will attempt to run away.
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,340 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Yep
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,340 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Ukrainians have not hit them yet.
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)Russia is corrupt, their military is all about enriching the Kleptocrats. Letting these criminals in is a great way for their military to collapse even further.