According to the Daily Star on October 6, the Wagner Group - the infamous mercenary group, is often described as " Putin 's private army", and is rapidly losing personnel and supplies as Russia's process of entering Ukrainian territory collapses.
Now, the private military contractor is spreading the recruitment net wider, hoping to make up for some of the devastating losses in Ukraine.
To increase the number of Wagner Group, fighters from all over Eastern Europe and Latin America were attracted by high salaries.
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Wagner paid soldiers a monthly salary of US$5,000 (about RMB 36,000), but according to sources, the salary has doubled recently.
Salary is rising, but the standards are falling.
"They usually recruit people with solid military experience, but this invasion changed Wagner," a source told Eye of the Middle East.
"Now, they are trying to approach people who do bad things without hesitation and need cash in urgent need."
This private army is also suspected of showing goodwill to organized criminal groups in Latin America and Eastern European countries such as Czech , Moldova and Hungarian ).
The bosses of the Wagner Group also recruited personnel from prisoners in Russian prisons, many former prisoners were used as cannon fodder to distract the Ukrainian army, while elite troops were transferred elsewhere.
In a prison in the Mariel region in central Russia, a recruiter told the prisoner: "In 6 months, you will be pardoned and returned home."
"It is impossible to go back to prison again."
For a long time, a close confidant of Russian leader Putin and businessman Yevgeny Prigozin has been considered the helm of the Wagner Group, but this fact was not confirmed until recently.
He proudly compared his mercenary with the great army of the past: "In the culture of any country, there should be phenomena like Wagner."
"I talked about Robin Hood, three musketeers and 300 Spartan people more than once. Now it's Wagner's turn."
netizen:
scum, killing and raping innocent people for happiness and money, and when they meet a real army, they will be quickly abolished.
If you know they will die before the end of this month, how much can you pay them. The lamb to be slaughtered.
(Source: Daily Star)
