The task of Wagner fighters is to support a smaller group of experienced contractors. Former prisoners account for the biggest losses among the Wagner personnel.
“To avoid a threat of ‘staff shortage’, Wagner is urgently training several hundred additional mercenaries from among the prisoners to be sent to the war zone,” the intelligence agency added.
As of October, Russia has sent at least 15,130 prisoners to the war against Ukraine since mid-summer.
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