The Telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU has published a video in which "Putin's cook" Yevgeny Prigozhin recruits prisoners of IK-6 of Yoshkar-Ola to participate in the war against Ukraine.
In the published footage, he stands in front of a line of prisoners and tells them about the conditions of service.
“I only want stormtroopers. <…> Those who move forward, those who are the most greyhounds, they survive better. Those who give back, do not understand what to do, get in the ass,” says “Putin’s chef”.
According to Prigozhin, the minimum age to be sent to war in Ukraine is 22. However, if the applicant is younger, then the problem can be solved with a note from relatives that they are not against his service. “Conditionally” the maximum age is 50 years.
Prigogine says that everyone who wants to apply must pass an interview and pass several tests. Also, according to him, special attention will be paid to those who are serving time on drug and sexual charges. After six months of service, according to Prigozhin, the prisoners will be pardoned and sent home.
The main "sin", according to Prigozhin, is desertion:
“No one gives back, no one retreats, no one surrenders. When you are instructed on surrendering, you will be told about two grenades that you should have with you. <…> For those who arrive and on the first day say: “Somewhere I didn’t go there”, we make a mark “deserter”, and after that execution follows.”
It is noteworthy that Prigozhin also directly says that he owns the Wagner PMC. So, he reports that "in his PMC" there are combat aircraft, MLRS and tanks. He also mentions that after serving in Ukraine there is an option to stay in the Wagner PMC. The dead are promised to be buried in their hometowns on the alleys of heroes or at the PMC chapel in Goryachiy Klyuch.
Prigogine also spoke about the first recruited prisoners:
“The first prisoners who fought with me were on June 1, the assault on the Uglegorsk thermal power plant. 40 people from St. Petersburg, strict regime, relapse, went into the trenches of the enemy, cut him out with knives, three dead, seven wounded. Among the dead, one was 52 years old, thirty of them were imprisoned, he died heroically.