The head of the Wagner Group mercenary force may be shifting his focus away from the battlefield in Ukraine back to Africa, where in the past they have conducted operations in countries like Sudan and Mali, according to the Moscow Times newspaper.
The company’s critics inside the Russian military have told President Vladimir Putin that any
victories come only after it threw thousands of recruited prisoners to their deaths on Ukraine’s front lines, according to Bloomberg, which cited people close to the Kremlin and Russia’s intelligence services.from its supply of Russian prisoners, transferring that authority to the defense ministry, Bloomberg said. But, thousands of Russian convicts who fought for Mr. Prigozhin are likely to be pardoned and released in the coming weeks, according to British intelligence officials.
Prisoners were offered commutation of their sentences after six months of service. While at least half were killed or wounded on the battlefield, evidence suggests Russia is following through on its promise to free recruits who completed their contract, British officials said this week.
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