32,000 ex-prisoners returned from Donbass to Russia – Muricas News

The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that, as of June 18, 32,000 former prisoners who fought in the Donbass in units of a private military company have returned home.

These data are given in the telegram channel of the press service of Prigozhin.

According to the press service, 83 of the participants in the hostilities repeated crimes were committed by former convicts. “This is 0.25% of the number of those who have left the society, which is 80 times less than that of persons released from places of deprivation are free for the same period without concluding a contract with the Wagner PMC,” the report says.

Note that in the past months, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that the PMC recruited 50,000 prisoners, 20% of them died. He announced the pardon of the first groups of convicts from PMCs in January 2023, and in February he announced that the recruitment of prisoners to Wagner had been stopped.