“Concorde” commented on the video with the recruitment of prisoners “monstrously similar” to Prigozhin by a person

A video appeared on social networks in which a man who looks like businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin recruits prisoners from one of the colonies to participate in a military operation in Ukraine as part of the Wagner PMC. The press service of the company “Concord”, owned by Mr. Prigozhin, in response to a request from RTVI, called him “monstrously similar” to a businessman and noted that he also “has a very well-delivered speech.”

“Indeed, we can confirm that the person in the video is monstrously similar to Evgeny Viktorovich. Judging by his rhetoric, he somehow deals with the implementation of the tasks of the special operation, and it seems that he is successfully doing this. In addition, you absolutely rightly emphasized, dear Dmitry, that the person on the video has a very well-delivered speech, just like Yevgeny Viktorovich, ”the press service said in a statement published in “In contact with”.

“And a person who looks like Yevgeny Viktorovich very intelligibly explains simple understandable things to ordinary people,” the company added.

The day before, September 14, Telegram channels A video appeared in which a man who looks like Yevgeny Prigozhin tells prisoners in one of the Mordovian colonies about the Wagner PMC and invites them to take part in a military operation in Ukraine. “The war is hard, it doesn’t look like any Chechen war. My ammunition consumption is about two and a half times more than in Stalingrad,” says the person in the video.

He offers prisoners from 22 to 50 years old to become stormtroopers in the Wagner PMC. In return, they are promised a pardon after six months of work. The man in the video also claims that those who refuse to participate in hostilities after training will be shot as deserters. According to him, “there are no options to return to the zone.”

“Do you have anyone with a tenth term to get out of here? What do you think? There are two who pull out: it is Allah and God in a wooden box. I’m getting you out alive. But I don’t always return alive,” he said.

In the summer, a number of media outlets, citing sources, reported that the Wagner PMC was recruiting prisoners from Russian colonies to participate in a military operation in Ukraine. According to the publications, in return for the convicts, they were promised a pardon after six months of service in the war zone. Media sources reported that Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is associated with the Wagner PMC, was personally involved in the recruitment of prisoners. According to Russian law, pardons for prisoners can only be granted by the President of Russia.

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