Opening of the first official headquarters Wagnerian groups took place on Friday, November 4. As foreign media point out, the opening coincided with the national holiday of Russia. On this day, National Unity Day is celebrated.
The Wagner Group already has its headquarters. “Palace of Creativity”
The Wagner Group Center is located in a multi-storey glass building in petersburg. “According to the boss PKW The center in Prigożyna will deal with the “development of defense technologies and information security of the country”, reads NEXTY on Twitter.
“The mission of the Wagner Center is to provide comfortable conditions for generating new ideas to improve Russia’s defense capabilities,” Wagner Group owner Yevgeny Prigozhin wrote as quoted by by AFP. The building is to serve as an administrative center for the military group, but also as the headquarters of an innovation center, where patriotic start-ups are to be developed. “The Ukrainian Truth” indicates that the center should be a “palace of creativity” for this type of task.
Konstantin Dolgov (former commissioner for human rights in Russia), who was present at the opening of the center, said in turn that it will be a “think tank in which people united by a same objective will work on the implementation of certain tasks to Object From the Russian Federation”.
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“The Ukrainian Truth” reports that during the opening of the center, talks were to take place on the intention to create a development center for journalists and computer scientists, people who left Russia after the start of the war were reprimanded, and the creation of a national social network was announced.
Ukrinform: More and more people recruited into Wagner’s group are dying in Ukraine
In the past two months in Ukraine more than five hundred Russian prisoners, recruited for the war from the ranks of Wagnerian soldiers, died. Ukrinform reports that this is a quarter of the so-called “volunteers” sent to the area of combat operations.
The agency writes about the release of more than two hundred letters to families recently, notifying of the death of a band member, that person’s documents, and the posthumous “For Courage” medal. It also publishes the opinion of retired General Igor Gushkov of the Security Service of Ukraine, who claims that since September the number of criminals recruited in Russian camps work increased significantly. A retired soldier specifies that the formally condemned are integrated into the ranks of the Wagnerists after their release from the camps and that the sentences have been revoked. However, they do not receive any documents, only dog tags, issued by the Wagner Group as standard. According to the expert, the dates of death of the recruits, transmitted to the families, are generally much later than in reality.
The Wagner Group is a private military company owned by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a staunch ally Cheese fries, nicknamed his “cook”, and associated with Russian intelligence. It is strictly controlled by the Kremlin and has become a silent executor of the troublesome missions of the Russian Federation, in which, for political reasons, army. Wagnerians took part in at least several Russian military operations, incl. in the annexation of Crimea or the operations in the Donbass. According to estimates by Western observers, around 6,000 Wagnerists are involved in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. From the beginning of the conflict, they lost between 800 and 1,000 people.
