In Russia, the recruiters of PMC “Wagner” began campaigning in high school among schoolchildren. The mercenaries do not hide their future, declaring that they are convicts.
Mercenaries collect profiles of school graduates in order to recruit them to participate in the war against Ukraine.
So, on February 27, one of the “Wagnerites” gave a lecture about this structure of the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin to students in the 10th grade of Moscow school No. 183. On the published footage that appeared on the network, the recruiter himself says that he was in prison.
“I was accepted, and you will be accepted,” the prisoner says in the video.
The militant suggested that schoolchildren fill out a questionnaire and hand it over to the class teacher.
Wagnerites go to schools with weapons: watch the video
We add that in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, since the beginning of 2023, a youth club called “Wagnerenok” was launched, created on the basis of the Wagner PMC. According to the publication, this club was founded with the aim of “expanding the horizons of Russian youth” on the initiative of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The main goal of this organization is to educate schoolchildren and students in the spirit of patriotism. Simply put, children from school are taught to be occupiers and hate Ukrainians. The club's curators invite young people to play together in a military drone simulator, and also give lectures on militaristic topics, in particular, on weapon tuning.
Pro-Kremlin deputies and security officials often appear in the Wagnerenok club. Among the guests were State Duma deputies Vasily Vlasov and Maria Butina, pro-government blogger Vitaly Veresk and blogger Yuri Podolyaka. A little more than 10 people gathered for the first meeting with Prigozhina, and as of March, the Wagnerenok club had only 60 participants. The youth of St. Petersburg is not very actively involved in this club.
