Photos: Photos from the video
Concord Press Office the company released a video of the company's owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who, the report says, “brought to Karelia the fourth group of Wagner PMC fighters who had a six-month contract.”
The video shows Prigozhin standing at the airport in front of about two dozen men and spoke to them with a “parting word”. In his speech, he states that a free life now awaits these men – “there is money, there are medals”. He also promises the listeners help with housing, if they have nowhere to return, they should be placed in a hotel.
“Each of you has gone through something that your fathers and grandfathers did not go through,” Prigozhin said: “But only great-grandfathers at the time of the Great Patriotic War.”
He further called on former prisoners not to go to prison anymore. Prigogine recalled that during recruitment he needed their “criminal talent to kill the enemy”, but “now criminal talent is not needed.”
– Try to be more careful.
Those who want to return to the PMC, “we are waiting for you back,” he reminded.