Two captured Russian mercenaries have said they signed up for the Ukraine frontline after being told they were at war with the West - including the UK.
The hardened Wagner Group fighters are a convicted killer and a thug jailed for brawling and were recruited whilst behind bars by one of Russian President Putin’s top aides. As reported by the Mirror, the pair signed up after Yevgeny Prigozhin - dubbed “Putin’s chef” - flew to their jails by helicopter and promised them “a clean sheet” and 200,000 rubles a month.
On Wednesday they told the Mirror's Defence Editor Chris Hughes how they were thrown into the horrors of war, seeing comrades slaughtered as worthless cannon fodder ahead of the Russian Army. One claimed notorious Wagner Group fighters were at the front of every battle as he admitted he had killed Ukrainian soldiers, but did not know how many.
