The leader of the Russian mercenary company Wagner announced in a video that the first set of Russian inmates who had been promised amnesty in exchange for fighting in Ukraine had been freed.
You’ve completed your contract, Yevgeny Prigozhin tells a group of guys in a video that was released by the Ria Novosti news agency in Russia. Your job was honorable and dignified.
After finishing their six-month contracts in Ukraine, the men “should be regarded with [the] deepest respect by society,” according to Prigozhin.
He said, “Don’t drink too much, don’t do drugs, don’t rape women, and don’t get up to any mischief.”