Median Investigative Service, along with the support of BBC Russia, reached Wagner Group's interior documentation. What is the consequence of the paper analysis? Wagner's group recruited 48 366 convicts serving prison sentences and penal colonies spread across the Russian Federation. I must point out that journalists only describe the “branch” in Russian crime scenes in the course of the fighting in Ukraine. Thus, stating that "the first of the contracts was signed on 1 July 2022" – and so we read in the text – it should be stressed that the mercenary armed formation recruited prisoners much earlier, but not on a mass scale, and the intent of the recruitment was to supply troops with convict veterans of peculiar forces and peculiar services. A akin comment will be placed on data on compensation for relatives of the deceased, in which - knowing the practice of trench fights - it is hard to believe.
