Russia-linked Wagner Group recruits Russia convicts amid flagging troop count in Ukraine: British intelligence
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The Kremlin-linked Wagner Group has taken to recruiting soldiers from Russian prisons to join Russia's forces in the war in Ukraine.
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"Prisoners have been offered commutation of their sentences as well as cash incentives," the U.K. defense ministry said in a daily briefing. "This has been reinvigorated, with recently posted video highly likely showing Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin making a recruitment pitch to prisoners."
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