 Head of Russia's private military company Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin has met with ex-prisoners who participated in the war in Ukraine and completed their six-month contract. The video of Prigozhin's meeting with the prison recruits was circulated in the Russian news agency Riya Novosti on Thursday. The first group of prisoners recruited from Russian jails by the Wagner group were pardoned after six-month service. Reminding that the conviction of the Wagners, who served for six months, were evoked, Prigozhin ordered them to behave well in freedom and not to use drugs. He also said that the police and citizens should treat such persons with respect. Prigozhin also spoke about the deceased Wagners calling them heroes. One of the returning Wagner recruits told Riya Novosti that many of the pardon fighters plan to return to Wagner as paid contractors. Prigozhin said that the law should not be violated, but if you saw a person who came after the war and was sitting in the camp before that and signed with a volunteer, and some of them were sitting in the camp for two days, they just wanted to protect their motherland. Therefore, it is necessary to understand that they are a completely full-fledged criminal society. Many people do not smoke, do not consume drugs, women do not wear violence. We do not regret. The police should treat you with respect.