Wagner fighters filmed in Ukraine.carrying their wounded commander to a barn then beating him with a shove. The Russian private military company Wagner has stopped recruiting convicts from prisons to fight in Ukraine, according to a statement attributed to the group’s owner. Wagner signed up an estimated 40,000 prisoners for Russia’s war in Ukraine, alongside 10,000 contracted fighters. It is suspected that Wagner soldiers have been involved in war crimes such as the murder of civilians. Earlier this week drone footage emerged of four Wagner soldiers beating their own commander with a shovel on a battlefield in the Russian occupied Donbas region of Ukraine.
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