 Putin personally pardons Wagner rights so they can be sent to front. Russian President Vladimir Putin is issuing personal pardons to prisoners recruited by the Wagner group so that they can then be sent to fight in the war against Ukraine. Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, informs about it. I asked a person who has access to the federal level integrated data bank police database to check out a couple of prisoners who appeared in a video with Prigozin as an example of Wagner's social elevator in prison the day before yesterday at the front yesterday in prison the day before yesterday at the front yesterday free today one of them is a murderer and the other is in pre-revolutionary terms a thief both have the same note in the federal level integrated data bank exempted from further serving their sentences on grounds provided in a presidential decree on clemency according to the journalist's source the decrees are dated the 6th of July 2022 the document is not publicly available Novaya Gazeta says the closest ones by publication date are dated 5th and 6th of July judging by the document numbers there are five other unpublished decrees between them Novaya Gazeta reports that when recruiting prisoners Prigozin promises them a pardon six months in advance but it is legally issued before they are sent to the front Dmitry Peskov the Russian president's press secretary said in late January that decrees pardoning prisoners who have been recruited to fight in Ukraine are classified earlier Andrey Medvedev a former Wagner group commander who has fled to Norway told the media that prisoners recruited by Prigozin write their petitions for pardon before they are sent to the war