The paramilitary unit is losing its influence in the war, along with its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin—But will Vladimir Putin snub the Wagner Group entirely?
Its fighters, largely Russian convicts, have been the only soldiers to have achieved any notable successes on the battlefield in recent months.
Beginning in the summer of 2022, Prigozhin is believed to have recruited as many as 50,000 prisoners from Russia's extensive penitentiary system for Putin's war, luring them in with pardons from the Kremlin and cash incentives in exchange for six months of service in Ukraine., as many learn of the high fatality rate among recruited prisoners.
Former Russian commander Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, also known as Igor Girkin, quickly responded to that statement, suggesting that the Wagner Group's days in Ukraine are numbered, and that the order to terminate prisoner recruitment came from the Kremlin itself. According to Romanova, who fled to Berlin from Russia in 2017, employees of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service, who are compiling lists of potential recruits, say it is now the defense ministry, not the Wagner Group, that is hiring prisoners for the war.
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