The leader of the Russian PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin stopped recruiting prisoners for the war in Ukraine
Prigozhin announced that he would no longer recruit mercenaries for the war against Ukraine. The likely reason for this is competition with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
This is reported by the British Ministry of Defense on Twitter.
British intelligence notes that data from the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service since December 2022 has already shown a decrease the level of recruitment of prisoners. News of failures, mass deaths of Wagnerites and conditions at the front reduced the number of prisoners who agree to go to war.
“The key factor in stopping this scheme is probably the increasingly direct rivalry between the Russian Ministry of Defense and Wagner” The regular Russian armed forces have also likely now deployed the vast majority of reservists called up during “partial mobilization,” British intelligence says.
It is noted that now the Russian leadership is facing a difficult choice: to continue to deplete their forces, curtail targets or carry out further mobilization.
Recall that Evgeny Prigozhin said that the recruitment of mercenaries into a group of prisoners was stopped. Answering a question from journalists, “Putin's cook” noted that to those who are now in the ranks of the “Wagnerites”, all obligations are fulfilled.
At the same time, the American Institute for the Study of War is sure that Prigogine will continue to recruit trained for the war in Russian prisons. At present, he continues to stir up the conflict with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
