The head of Vladimir Putin’s mysterious private army is recruiting tortured prisoners – including rape victims and those suffering from HIV and Hepatitis C – to die on the front lines in Ukraine, a…
, is using “pressure” to enlist prisoners from the country’s penal colonies to act as bullet-catchers with sub-par training and little equipment.revealed how Russia’s prisons retain aspects of the caste system of the Soviet Union’s gulags.
“He is one of the ‘the Shamed;’ his face was ripped up in a drone explosion, we spoke on a video call,’” he says on the tape. “‘Most of them are not alive any longer; another ‘Shamed’ guy, Sashka Shabanov, has been killed. Although he was ‘Shamed,’ he was a good guy.”Prigozhin, who sometimes referred to as “Putin’s chef” thanks to his early catering contracts with the Kremlin, reportedly startedin July following failed operations in Donetsk.
Former prisoner and torture survivor Ruslan Vakhapov is one of the human rights activists trying to keep convicts from Prigozhin’s grasp. Marat Gabidullin, a veteran Wagner mercenary commander, explained to The Daily Beast that traumatized and ill convicts are the only option for Prigozhin to replace his dwindling ranks. Even though paramilitary groups like Wagner are technically illegal, they now openly advertise for recruits on billboards.social media/e2w