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"Wagner Group recruits large number of prisoners with HIV and hepatitis, marking them with wristbands"

Russian Wagner Group private military contractor recruiting convicts for combat the Ukraine Conflict a percentage of those released as contracted having been found to be infected with highly contagious and lethal blood-borne disease.

From Ukrainska Pravda the article by STANISLAV POHORILOV — 25 OCTOBER.

"The Russian private military company Wagner has started to recruit large numbers of prisoners who are suffering from serious infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C for the war in Ukraine. The phenomenon has already become widespread."

"Source: press service of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence"

"Details: The fact that more than a hundred prisoners with confirmed HIV or hepatitis C have been recruited at Penal Colony No. 5 in Metalostroy (Leningrad Oblast, Russia) alone shows that this phenomenon is widespread."

Phenomenon widespread and requiring those infected individuals to carry a special wristband marking?

"The Wagner Group command 'marks' the infected soldiers by forcing prisoners to wear red wristbands if they are HIV-positive and white ones if they have hepatitis."

As is obvious battlefield wounding of such individuals might produce a profuse flow of infected blood that can pose a danger to those medical personnel treating the wounded.

Normally individuals infected with blood-borne disease would be precluded from any sort of military service and combat duty. In the case of mercenary cut-throat convicts this evidently is not so.

See too this dailymail.co.uk article the Wagner PMC boss Prigozhin and his relationship to Vlad Putin.

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