hikingmike t1_j629lkz wrote
Reply to comment by MoltenGeek in A Russian graveyard reveals Wagner's prisoner army by reuters
They are contradicting so many of their laws so probably the law part isn’t even necessary.
Baneken t1_j634bkl wrote
Like the part in their constitution which explicitly forbids "wars of aggression" to be fought... Putin hand-waved this by declaring the war as "Special operation".
hikingmike t1_j65h6go wrote
I wasn't aware of that. But I did know that -
PMCs are technically illegal under Article 359 of the 1996 Russian Criminal Code, which states: “Recruitment, training, financing, or any other material provision of a mercenary, and also the use of him in an armed conflict or hostilities, shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of four to eight years.”
https://www.csis.org/analysis/putins-proxies-examining-russias-use-private-military-companies
"the use of him in an armed conflict" - that implicates Prigozhin and probably Putin (just need some evidence for the link which is obviously there).
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