In Ulan-Ude, a recruitment center was told by telephone that “everything is in order, the work is in progress.” When asked whether newly recruited Wagner PMCs need to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense, as Russian President Putin announced the day before, they answered in the negative.
In Barnaul, where mercenaries were recruited by the Wagner PMC, a municipal children’s educational institution – a branch of the Olympic reserve sports school, they reported that they continue to conclude new contracts “on the same terms.”
In Irkutsk, after June 23, posters advertising PMC “Wagner” were removed in all districts of the city. The recruitment center in the sports club on Baikalskaya Street is still working, a PMC representative said. When asked whether the work included the conclusion of new contracts, they declined to answer by phone.
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