
The Wagner mercenary group is still recruiting fighters across Russia, just days after the rebellion prompted Vladimir Putin to fear civil war.
At least so reports the BBC, which, using a Russian phone number, called more than a dozen recruitment centers.
"All those who have answered us have confirmed that the company's work continues" , reports the BBC.
From Kaliningrad in the west to Krasnodar in the south, no one ever believed that the group had disbanded. In the city of Murmansk, a woman at the Viking sports club confirmed that she was still registering fighters for Ukraine.
"This is where we are recruiting, yes. If anyone wants to go, they just have to call me and we'll set up a day. ” Wagner's long list of contact points is mainly based on fight clubs, including martial arts schools and boxing clubs.
Several people pointed out that the new members were signing contracts with the mercenary group itself, not the Russian defense ministry. " It has absolutely nothing to do with the defense ministry ," a man at the Sparta sports club in Volgograd was convinced. " Nothing has stopped, we are still recruiting ."
The demand that the mercenaries be transferred to the defense ministry followed Wagner's mutiny last weekend. After an agreement with the Belarusian president, the leader of the mercenary group agreed to withdraw the troops that were headed for Moscow and move to Belarus himself.
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