Throwing to the war with Ukraine of the Wagner PMC by 80% consists of prisoners recruited in Russian colonies, its content costs a amount equal to the budget of a large Russian region. About this with reference to the US intelligence received by Reuters by a senior American official, and then confirmed at a briefing by the official representative of the White House National Security John Kirby.
The head of the PMC Evgeny Prigozhin, according to the United States, spends $ 100 million a month on the maintenance of his “private army”. Despite generous funding, Prigozhin experiences difficulties with a set of new fighters in Russia and replenishes the ranks of Wagner by militants from Syria, Libya, TsA and Mali, Kirby said.