The arrested former candidate for governor of Primorye from the Communist Party Andrey Ishchenko asked to be mobilized to participate in the war with Ukraine. This was reported to Kommersant by his lawyer Viktoria Vinogradova.
Ishchenko sent a statement to the military commissar of the region Nikolai Trihubko with a request for mobilization.
Ishchenko believes that now he will bring "more benefit" to the country by defending it with weapons, the lawyer said. According to her, the answer has not yet been received. The publication clarifies that Ishchenko has the military rank of lieutenant, his military registration specialty is “commander of a mine-torpedo warhead, combat use of anti-submarine and torpedo weapons of surface ships.”
Last week, the prosecutor approved the indictment in the criminal case against Ishchenko. He is charged with fraud during the construction of an apartment building in Vladivostok, the amount stolen from equity holders amounted to 380 million rubles. The ex-gubernatorial candidate himself does not admit guilt.
Earlier, a video appeared on the network, in which a recidivist criminal Yevgeny Prigozhin recruits prisoners from IK-6 of Yoshkar-Ola to participate in the war against Ukraine. On the footage, he stands in front of a line of prisoners and tells them about the conditions of service. In the same video, for the first time, he says in plain text that he owns the Wagner PMC.
Even before the video was published, the convicts told The Insider that Prigozhin personally recruited prisoners in Russian colonies, offering to be released six months later for participating in hostilities in Ukraine. On September 22, Alexander Shestun, the former head of the Serpukhov District, who is serving his sentence, said that Prigozhin personally came to recruit prisoners for the war in IK-3 "Tovarkovo" and IK-4 "Medyn" in the Kaluga region. After that, about 500 prisoners were taken to the war in Ukraine.
