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Russia’s Wagner group halts prisoner recruitment campaign, founder Prigozhin says
Russia’s Wagner group has stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, Wagner’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Thursday.
In a response to a request for comment published on social media, Prigozhin said: “The recruitment of prisoners by the Wagner private military company has completely stopped. We are fulfilling all our obligations to those who work for us now.”
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