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The founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin met with candidates for the “orchestra” who arrived for training. The video was posted by the Telegram channel “Unloading Wagner”.
During the conversation, one of the new fighters, the Cossack Geranych, said that he tried to go to the front as part of the regular army, but at first refused. The man complained that, despite his desire to protect the interests of his homeland, the command refused him service, citing his age and a criminal record.
“The military commissar promised: ‘I will agree.’ Out the door!” he said.
Geranych also complained about the current state of the armed forces, expressing the view that they were simply “destroyed”. He spoke of the disappointment felt by the fighters when he learned that the army had left Izyum.
“I’ve seen enough… They threw us, the remains of three companies, near Donetsk, we plugged the hole there, we’re sitting. On September 12, they rush – they returned Izyum, Gorokhovatka, Podvysokoye, Bogoroditskoye. How did you go? The battalion commander says, “What, didn’t you see who we left?”. They threw away the technology. <...> It's also impossible, dad, ”said Geranych. Prigozhin agreed with the Cossack, noting that the main thing in the army is control. And this cannot be done properly on the ground if senior management ignores what is happening at the front. The businessman also ironically advised fighters to prepare faster, joking that otherwise the Wagner PMC would take Bakhmut without them. Now the "orchestra" detachments continue their offensive in the direction of Bakhmut. Recently, it became known that the central district of the city and the AZOM industrial zone had completely passed under the control of the "musicians".
