Interview with Ruslan Karimov Ramilevich Interview with Shingiz Sibiev Kanatovich Glavcom (Ukrainian media outlet) spent several hours in a strict regime corrective colony in Dnipro. The criminal group Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), which fights as part of the Russian armed forces on Ukrainian territory, is already known worldwide for its brutality and lack of principles. Glavcom had the opportunity to speak with two representatives of this formation. Both are held in a strict regime corrective colony in Dnipro. Today is an inspection day in the colony — the guards are conducting a search of all personal belongings of the inmates. We have to wait at the gates until the search is over and visitors are allowed to enter. While waiting, we talk to a representative of the Security Service of Ukraine, who accompanies us to the captured Wagner fighters. The officer of the Security Service of Ukraine deals with Russian captives and has extensive experience in communicating with them. Recently, on Easter, Ukraine exchanged 25 Wagner members from this colony — all of them were convicts who were sent to the front directly from Russian prisons. They were exchanged, even though none of them had written a request for an exchange. The prisoners told their stories of being recruited to Ukraine. Two weeks before the “agitators” from Wagner were supposed to arrive, the conditions of detention in the Russian zone deteriorated: cafes and shops were closed, nothing could be bought with their own money, they were fed potatoes intended for feeding deer, and given fish like tulka (clupeonella), which smelled very bad and was impossible to eat. Even the experienced prisoners have never seen such a thing. Recruitment takes place in all Russian prisons. Out of approximately 1,100 inmates, around 200 show interest. Once the recruitment process is complete, the cafeteria reopens, and normal feeding resumes. Meat appears in the soup again. Once you agree, there’s no way to refuse. Although during the initial wave, it wasn’t as strict as it is now. According to accounts, several individuals mentioned that when they expressed a desire to refuse to go to war, they were beaten by the prison guards as a show of force. If an inmate expresses a desire to refuse, he is given a package of ten sheets of paper to sign. According to those papers, each...