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The Wagner Group, a private security company made up of Russian mercenaries, would be recruiting prisoners with infectious diseases – such as HIV or hepatitis C – from the country’s prisons to fight on Ukrainian territory. This has been revealed by the Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which has declared that it is a common practice by this well-known private security company.
According to information you publish The Kyiv Post Y Newsweekthe Wagner Group would be forcing prisoners to wear a different colored bracelet in order to differentiate soldiers with diseases from those who do not.
The Ukrinform agency reports that around 100 prisoners with HIV or hepatitis C have been recruited from a prison located in the village of Metalostroy, in Saint Petersburg. Ukraine has assured that there have already been confirmed cases of captured enemy combatants with hepatitis C or HIV.
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“Among the fighters who are forced to serve alongside the infected, outrage is growing over this situation. It is known that Russian doctors systematically refuse to provide care to the wounded with hepatitis or HIV,” Ukrainian intelligence authorities have assured. in statements collected by Europa Press.
Wagner is a Russian private military security company that is financed through Yevgeny Prigozhinone of the members of the inner circle of Vladimir Putin. It is actively involved in the war that Russia has started in Ukraine, but also in Syria, Libya and other parts of Africa.
The atrocities committed in Bucha, where a mass grave with hundreds of bodies was found, or the most recent attacks in Olenivka are some of the war crimes that Wagner’s mercenaries have committed in Ukraine. The list is long and seems to never end.
Since the start of the so-called “special military operation” in February of this year, at least 8,000 soldiers of said company have participated in the war in Ukraine started by the Kremlin capo.
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This is not the first time that the Wagner Group has operated on Ukrainian territory, as it did so in 2014 by playing a leading role in the battles for the Lugansk and Debaltseve airports in the Donetsk region – a situation that left Ukrainian troops with considerable battle losses.
Most modern equipment
Putin has demanded the equipment “more modern, comfortable and effective” for the soldiers it has deployed in Ukraine. He has done it during a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Government to guarantee the needs of the Russian Army.
“Not only must we guarantee the equipment used in the special military operation (…) but it must be modern, comfortable and effective,” he said during the meeting.
The president called reduce bureaucratic procedures that delay the supply of equipment to the Russians fighting in the neighboring country.
“They were created who knows in what times and in totally different conditions. That is why I draw attention: the norms are the norms, but they must be changed or modified quickly (…), orienting ourselves in the real situation, in the real needs “, he pointed out in a statement collected by EFE.
