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ConflictThe Wagner group plans to send women to fight in Ukraine
Held for sabotage or in “sniper teams”. The Russian paramilitary group wants to use a World War II method for the war in Ukraine.
A Russian elected official from the Urals claims that women detained in a prison in the city of Nizhny Tagil asked him to be sent to the Ukrainian front to help the Russian army.
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The paramilitary organization Wagner plans to recruit female prisoners from Russian prisons and send them to fight in Ukraine following doing the same with men, its leader, Yevgeny Prigojine, said on Wednesday. “Not just as nurses or operators, but also in saboteur groups or in sniper teams. We all know that this has already been done on a massive scale,” he said.
The leader of the Wagners was obviously referring to women snipers and those present in the partisan groups who fought in World War II and who were promoted by Soviet propaganda. “We are working in this direction. There is resistance, but I think we will overcome it,” added Evgueni Prigojine.
“Not just as nurses or operators, but also in saboteur groups or in sniper teams. We all know that this has already been done massively.
He was reacting to a message from a Russian elected official from the Urals, who claims that women detained in a prison in the city of Nizhny Tagil asked him to be sent to the Ukrainian front to help the Russian army.
Against remission
In recent months, Wagner is suspected of having recruited men detained in Russian prisons en masse and then sent them to fight on the front lines in Ukraine, once morest the promise of reduced sentences and attractive emoluments. Since 2014, this group has been accused of serving the interests of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the shadows and of committing abuses in many conflict zones, particularly in Syria and in African countries.
In September, 61-year-old Yevgeny Prigojine admitted having founded this organization following years of denial and is now operating in Russia, with an open face, a sign of a certain rise in power.
(AFP)