1/ The Wagner mercenary group has tightened up its physical fitness criteria for recruited convicts, according to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, after the rapid demise of the hundreds of "alcoholics and pensioners" it has recruited in the last few months. ⬇️ 
2/ VChK-OGPU, which appears to have good sources in the Russian security forces, has been reporting for some time on the recruitment activities of Wagner in Russian penal colonies. The channel reports:
3/ "In the last few days, representatives of Yevgeny Prigozhin have been touring the Saratov region penal colonies. Zeks [convicts] were also lined up on the parade ground, as in the first visit, where they were promised a pardon.
4/ The fighters responded directly to the audience's question about the fact that many of those who went to war in the first wave (and these were hundreds of convicts) are now dead.
5/ But, according to them, the recruitment approach was to blame, because a couple of months ago they had recruited almost all those who wanted to go, most of whom turned out to be "alcoholics and pensioners".
6/ Now volunteers were forced to do squats (100 times) and push-ups (40 times). It is true that this time the number of recruits is many times smaller: in one of the strict regime [maximum security] prisons a record [low number of] 10 people responded.
7/ There are rumours among inmates that about 200 inmates died in a few days during a single assault, and this is only [among those] from the Saratov region." /end
Source:
t.me/vchkogpu/35311
Source:
t.me/vchkogpu/35311
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