Russian invaders are trying to recruit residents of Melitopol to join the Wagner PMC in order to storm Bakhmut later. This was stated on the air of the telethon by the Melitopol city head Ivan Fedorov..

“At the end of the week, in closed groups of Melitopol residents who remained in the temporarily occupied city, they began to mail out and type in Wagner. Of course, no one agrees,” Fedorov said..

According to him, the occupiers offer to pay 200 thousand rubles a month to those residents of the city who agree to go to Bakhmut as part of Wagner.. There are fierce battles every day.

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According to British intelligence, recently the owner of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has probably lost access to recruitment in Russian prisons due to open disputes with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense.. It is indicated that now Prigozhin directs efforts to recruit ordinary citizens of Russia. In particular, in recent days, masked Wagner recruiters have been conducting career-guidance talks even in Moscow secondary schools, distributing “statement of a young warrior” questionnaires to collect contact details of interested students..