The partial mobilisation in Russia is going so well, Wagner are doing this:
Levent Kemal AT leventkemaI
My latest:
Wagner Group lures foreign mercenaries with bumped-up salaries as Russia suffers losses
Russian paramilitary outfit liaising with organised crime groups in Latin America and Europe to recruit more fighters, sources tell MEE
www.middleeasteye.net/news/wagner-group-russia-foreign-mercenaries-salaries-suffers-losses
Extracts:
The sources said Wagner is rapidly losing fighters and equipment due to disarray within the Russian army itself.
Soldiers often quarrel with the mercenary units, and the Ukrainian military has forced Wagner’s fighters out of strategically important positions like the city of Lyman, they said.
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According to the sources, Wagner has sought to replenish its forces by recruiting mercenaries from Turkey, Serbia, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Canada, Moldova and Latin American countries. The foreign fighters are being lured with higher than usual incomes.
Pre-war, Wagner paid its fighters between $3,000 to $5,000 a month, but the sources said those rates had now been bumped up to $10,000.
Wagner is also believed to have contacted local organised crime groups in Latin America and European nations such as Czechia, Moldova and Hungary.
“They would usually recruit people with solid military experience, but the invasion has changed Wagner,” one of the sources familiar with the issue told MEE. “Now they are trying to reach the individuals who will not hesitate to kill people and are in need of cash."
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Wagner publicly started to recruit prisoners from Russian jails earlier this year and sent them to the frontlines in Ukraine. According to the sources, the recruitment efforts in prisons, where inmates are offered amnesties and salaries to take up arms, are continuing.
MEE reported last month that many former prisoners were used as cannon fodder by the Russian military to distract Ukrainian forces, and were often left behind during withdrawals.
Remember Wagner were going to recruit tens of thousands of men from north africa and the middle east. That obviously has gone really well and according to plan.