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Wagner Group exposed recruiting Russian prisoners for Ukraine

Recruits are banned from having sexual contact with 'local women, flora, fauna or men'

Yevgeniy Prigozhin in the leaked video (Credit: Twitter)
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The Wagner Group thrives in the shadows, but now its founder has been caught on camera: recruiting prisoners from a Russian penal colony for the war in Ukraine.

In the video, Yevgeniy Prigozhin paces about a large group of prisoners, giving them the hard sell on joining the Russian war effort.

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