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A force led by President Vladimir Putin’s former bodyguard is trying to recruit veterans of the paramilitary force, which mutinied against Russian military leaders and saw its leader killed in a plane crash.
According to a letter obtained by the site Important Stories, recruitment efforts have begun to target citizens in "vulnerable social segments of society."
Russian media have reported that the Wagner Group has become a unit of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) and has resumed recruiting soldiers in Russia, in particular, in Perm and Novosibirsk. Source: Meduza, a Latvia-based Russian independent news outlet; Perm-based website 59.
It has been reported that there are at least 16 places in occupied regions of Ukraine where Russian troops have been detained for insubordination.
A Russian serviceman adjusts the uniform of a conscript at a gathering point in Omsk on November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko So-called "torture pits"…