Relatives of prisoners recruited by the Wagner mercenary group say they have been sent coffins without their loved-ones’ bodies after being notified of their deaths in Ukraine
Wagner forces have led the Russian assault on the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, making heavy use of prisoner recruits The woman, named only as Angelina, said she was told not to open the coffin as Wagner used a DNA database to identify bodies. “They told us they could guarantee 100 per cent that it was him,” she said.
But Angelina later received a call from a Ukrainian intelligence officer to say that her husband was alive and being held in captivity. Russian authorities would not comment on the case. Similar claims have been circulating on Russian social media. A Telegram post on a channel named “Find prisoners in the Military Operation”, purportedly from the wife of a convict fighter, described opening a coffin that was said to contain her husband’s body – and finding it empty.The mercenary group has recruited tens of thousands of prisoners to supplement its forces in Ukraine, according to Moscow-based prisoner rights group Russia Behind Bars.
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