Vagner PMCs consist of 40 thousand prisoners, and the company’s budget is comparable to the budget of the Republic of Karelia, such data are given by American intelligence.
According to the USA, the founder of PMC Evgeny Prigozhin spends about $ 100 million per month on it, in terms of a year and Russian rubles are about 84.2 billion. The annual budget of the Republic of Karelia is 84.8 billion rubles. However, despite such a serious funding, Putin’s cook is experiencing problems with the hiring of new prisoners, and therefore recruits militants in Syria, TsA and other countries.
The representative of the White House National Security Council John Kirby said that Wagner’s PMC lost more than a thousand militants over the past week, but even despite this, Prigogine’s influence is growing and he becomes independent of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Moreover, sometimes the military forces of the Ministry of Defense are subordinate to the “musicians.”