Prigozhin’s company announced the return of the fourth group of former prisoners from a special operation

The fourth group of former prisoners who served in the Wagner PMC arrived in Karelia from the military operation zone, the press service of the Concord company, owned by the PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, reported.

In the Telegram channel of the press service published videoin which Mr. Prigozhin addresses a parting word to a group of men who, allegedly, have served a contract in the Wagner PMC.

“For 180 days you have worked as it should. All showed courage and heroism. Each of you went through something that your fathers and grandfathers did not go through, but only great-grandfathers did during the Great Patriotic War. We fulfilled our task conscientiously and honestly,” said the founder of the PMC. He stated that he remembers how many doubted “to go or not to go.”

“I told you at one time that I need your criminal talents to kill the enemy in war. Now criminal talents are not required. Try to remember as much as possible that you do not need to return to the camp. To get to us at war again, it is not necessary to sit down. Therefore, remember the commandments,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin.

January 5, Mr. Prigogine toldthat the criminal records were removed from the first group of prisoners who joined the PMC. The Kremlin has neither denied nor confirmed the pardoning of the convicts from Wagner PMC. Member of the Presidential Human Rights Council Eva Merkacheva informedthat the prisoners who participated in the special operation were pardoned by secret decrees even before they were taken out of the colony. January 13 R.T. informedthat more than a hundred former prisoners who had served their contract in the Wagner PMC returned from the zone of the military operation.

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Erdni Kagaltynov