This is the house of Wagner Group soldier. Simply unbelievable
The Russian TV channel TV2 showed a house where one of the mercenaries from the Wagner Group was supposed to live. This one died on the front line, and his house was marked with a special plaque with the group's symbol and information that a mercenary of PMC Wagner was a resident. People were taken aback, just to see the conditions in which this man lived.
1:02 PM EDT, October 24, 2023
To say that the house presented by Russian television TV2 is a ruin is an understatement. But this is exactly the condition a soldier of the Wagner Group lived and resided in Tomsk. The mercenary died on the front, and a commemorative plaque, which reminds of the fallen soldier, was placed on the building. However, something else catches the eye.
This house is simply a ruin, in which it was hard to live in decent conditions. Broken windows, a cracking roof, collapsed boards on the facade of the house, and not only. The building is old and barely fit for habitation. Add to that the neglected surroundings, and you have a recipe for idyllic life in Russia, don't you? You can see it right away.
And who can be surprised that the Russians let themselves be taken into the army, and then to the front?
Perhaps for some of them, the military might be a chance for a better life. After all, they can earn a living and go back to their native places with hopes of improving terrible living conditions. The crux, however, is that first, they must survive the war, which is not at all easy. The Wagner Group mercenary failed to do so and was killed somewhere on the frontline.
Now there's a plaque on the family home that reminds us of its existence. Just like the house, it looks neglected and haphazard. Well, that's probably a Russian specialty. Media in Russia report that strange plaques dedicated to PMC Wagner mercenaries began to appear on houses in Tomsk. Local channel TV2 reports this issue.
This is where the family of a Wagner Group soldier lives, who gave his life for his homeland - reads the inscription on a plaque that was placed on the building.
In Russia, the cult of Wagnerians is constantly growing, including those who had previously served sentences e.g. for murders, and had become a nuisance to the local population. Yevgeny Prigozhin took them from prisons and penal colonies to his unit, where they were supposed to "work off" their guilt and earn a return to society. Many returned to the country in black bags.
According to Biełsat TV, it's not entirely clear who is mounting the plaques and honoring the soldiers of the Wagner Group all over Russia. It might be their leaders, or it might be someone else. The whole situation fuels rumors that Prigozhin is alive and is about to return soon to take charge of his unit again. This would be shocking information.
For the Russian authorities, a worst-case scenario, as the crash of the Embraer Legacy 600 airplane with Wagner group commanders, was supposed to be a meticulously carried out by the FSB and people of Vladimir Putin, an assassination attempt on the life of a man who dared to raise his hand against Russian authorities. Near the town of Kuzhenkino, the plane crashed to the ground, and with it, ten people.
Prigozhin was among the victims, and his Wagner Group was quickly subordinated to Russian authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Now someone honors the deceased mercenaries, and there were supposed to be even 50,000 of them in the beginning of 2023. Today, when the squad no longer plays a leading role, there are ten times fewer Wagnerians.
