Short of soldiers and facing battlefield setbacks, Russia appears to be turning to convicted criminals to fight in Ukraine.
The video posted to Russian social media sites shows a man with the voice and likeness of Prigozhin addressing a large group of prisoners, all wearing navy-colored uniforms and assembled in what appears to be a concrete yard. He tells them that their sentences would be commuted if they served in Ukraine for six months — but that anyone who changes their mind would be shot as a deserter.
Video allegedly shows Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin recruiting prisoners to go fight in Ukraine. A Russian military blogger “noted that Prigozhin is introducing a ‘Stalinist’ method that allows the Kremlin to avoid ordering a general mobilization that could ignite social tensions in Russian society,” the institute added, referring to the online community of pro-war activists who have been urging the Kremlin to change its approach in the wake of the Ukrainian advances.
“There are increasing indications that there’s a serious morale problem … which is extraordinarily dangerous to the Russians. Some pockets of the forces there have clearly chosen to retreat at high speed,” Lough said. “Indeed, we can confirm that the man in the video bears a monstrous resemblance to Yevgeny Viktorovich,” it said, using the patronymic version of Prigozhin’s name.
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