A former employee of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner” has revealed shocking information about a meeting with the company’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a Russian prison colony. The ex-prisoner’s account was reported by the news portal “E1.RU.”
According to the former inmate, he met Prigozhin in December of last year while serving his sentence in a colony that the founder of the PMC visited to recruit new soldiers for their subsequent involvement in a Russian special operation in Ukraine.
The speaker notes that Prigozhin explicitly informed the prisoners that most of them would not return home after participating in the special military operation (SMO), but they would be granted amnesty.
The man also revealed details about the selection process for joining the PMC. To be accepted, applicants had to perform 40 push-ups and 40 squats.
Having successfully passed the testing, the Russian man was sent to the SMO zone, even though his prison term was due to end in one month. He returned home without his legs and is currently awaiting prosthetic treatment.
Previously, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, disclosed how former Wagner fighters undergo combat training as part of the “Akhmat” special forces.
Earlier, a Wagner PMC member appeared as a hero of the SMO in front of schoolchildren in Nizhny Novgorod.
