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Member of the City Duma in Moscow Yevgeny Stupin said that he received a response from the General Staff of the Russian Federation to his request for PMC “Wagner” employees who recently signed a contract. According to a copy of the document posted by the deputy on the social network, he received a response signed by the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
Gerasimov's response states that the Wagner PMC “is not part of the structure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.” It is also reported that this circumstance precludes “the possibility of establishing any official contacts between the relatives of his employees and the employer with the help of the Russian Ministry of Defense.”
The day before, PMC founder Evgeny Prigozhin showed a video with a group of former prisoners who, according to According to him, the six-month contract with his structure has ended. He told the men in the footage that their “criminal talents” were no longer needed. On Wednesday, Prigozhin said that YouTube may soon be blocked in Russia.