Convicts Thought to be from Wagner Group Escape in Ukraine
- 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.
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