Wagner PMC recruits female convicts for war, they already deployed to front line

The LRT website reported on the situation.

Olga Romanova states that Wagner PMC started recruiting female convicts in Russian prisons.

"According to our data, women are already being sent to the front line, the first batch was recruited in the Krasnodar region at the end of December, but we do not know anything about their further fate," she said.

She also added that the Russia Behind Bars Foundation began to receive letters from women asking to facilitate their deployment to the war since its beginning.

She further said that after the new year Wagner PMC started to recruit in the prisons of Chechnya, although previously no mercenaries were documented in this region. In addition, Chechnya holds many political prisoners.

"Chechnya is such an extraterritorial entity, nobody knows what is happening there,” the journalist stressed. "I do not think that political prisoners will be taken to war, because first of all, opponents of Kadyrov are held in torture chambers.”

Romanova notes that Chechnya was the last subject of the Russian Federation where there was no recruitment of mercenaries and no mobilization.

"The fact that recruiters were allowed into Chechen prisons is the subject of a personal agreement between Prigozhin and Kadyrov. Prigozhin contributes to the release of Chechen crime lords, and, of course, Kadyrov will supply the Wagner PMC with people," said Romanova.

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