• 11/25/2024

Wagner Group leader says 32,000 former convicts have returned home from war in Ukraine

Pravda Ukraine

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, has said that 32,000 former convict fighters from his private military company have returned home after their contracts came to an end.
Source: a comment by Prigozhin, released by his press service
Quote from Prigozhin: “As of 18 June 2023, 32,000 of the people who were previously convicted and participated in the special military operation on the territory of the LPR [Luhansk People’s Republic] and DPR [Donetsk People’s Republic] in the ranks of the Wagner Group have gone home at the end of their contracts.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/18/7407412/