Wagner Group Desperate To Recruit Hooligans From Across The Globe To Make Up For Head Loss
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Alaina
- . October 7, 2022
- . Update: November 11, 2022 12:39 am
Blame it on a disarray amongst the Russian Army, but Wagner led mercenaries are losing men and are now on the lookout for fresh recruits. The Russian backed privately run private military organization is inviting mercenaries from Turkey, Serbia, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Canada, Moldova and Latin American countries to make up for its loss.
Fights between mercenaries and Russia soldiers has become a new spectacle, as Ukrainian forces are gradually claiming back strategic points in their territories. It has also been confirmed that the madness to recruitment is so intense that the new recruits from other countries are being offered fat salaries to join the Wagner Group.
Pre-war, Wagner paid its fighters between $3,000 to $5,000 a month, but the sources said those rates had now been bumped up to $10,000. Wagner is also believed to have contacted local organised crime groups in Latin America and European nations such as Czechia, Moldova and Hungary.
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The mindless recruitment isn’t anything closer to what was the initial setup of the Wagner group, which comprised of experienced and retired veterans who would support, if need be, military exercises or missions on being paid to do so.
The Wagner Group, which is mostly staffed by veterans of the Russian armed forces, was established in 2014 by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is close to Vladimir Putin and finally admitted last week that he owns the company after many years of denial. The opaque amalgamation of shadowy firms and contractors is accused of abuses in Syria, Libya and the Central African Republic.
Wagner publicly started to recruit prisoners from Russian jails earlier this year and sent them to the frontlines in Ukraine. According to the sources, the recruitment efforts in prisons, where inmates are offered amnesties and salaries to take up arms, are continuing. According to political analysts, such mindless recruitment only increases changes of huge human rights violations and increase in war crimes.
