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Who's Afraid of The Wagner Group?

The Briefing Room

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Are You Recruiting Soldiers in Prisons?

Joanna Deish Pereira: Were Wagner involved from the start as far as we know. There were indications that several battalion groups were moved from Africa, from Mali and Central African Republic, before the invasion of Ukraine. She says pregosing managed to recruit some of the figures that British intelligence has come up with around 50,000 prisoners. The first batch of prisoners was actually pardoned in January. Now he is no longer allowed to accrue to prison.

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