Convicts Thought to be from Wagner Group Escape in Ukraine

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/01/russian-police-hunt-armed-convicts-who-fled-mercenary-training/

• Six convicts escaped from a training camp in Ukraine run by the Wagner Group.
• Russian authorities posted leaflets around Rostov-on-Don warning residents.
• The men were thought to have escaped on 22 December.
• They are likely from the new batch of recruits specifically signed up from prisons.
• Head of the Wagner Group, Progizhin, toured remote prisons in Russia to recruit drug dealers and murderers.
• In November of 2022, the Wagner Group released a video where one of their fighters was smashing in the head of a deserter with a sledgehammer.  (Note: They have also mailed a sledgehammer to officials.)
• Prigozhin praised the video.
• Prigozhin said about the escapes: ““Many villains are being detained whom you don’t even need to know about. So sleep well.””
• The Wagner Group has been accused of human rights abuses in the Middle East and in Africa where they also functioned as proxies for the Russians. 
• A mercenary was arrested in Rostov in December after escaping.