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" However, now Wagner is lowering recruitment standards, hiring convicts and people previously on the “black lists”. Very limited training is available for recruits,” British intelligence analysts say..

This, they say, is likely to affect the group's future operational effectiveness and reduce its value as a backbone for regular Russian forces..

Also, the British Ministry of Defense recalled that the head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, recently received the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for the performance of Wagner in Luhansk.

" It is also likely to have a negative impact on Russian military morale..

Latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 18 July 2022Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t. co/FLMyNFy4J2? #StandWithUkraine? pic. twitter. com/F4p4UkX1KT.

— Ministry of Defense? (@DefenceHQ) July 18, 2022.

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The " It doesn't even legally exist.. This is a sham invented precisely to divert attention from the shell companies that ultimately belong to the Russian Ministry of Defense..

At the end of March, the British Ministry of Defense announced the transfer of " The department believes that this was a forced step, to which the Russian leadership was pushed by heavy losses and the almost complete failure of the invasion..