The General Staff said in its regular morning report that the doctors in Yuvileine are refusing to provide medical assistance to the Wagner mercenaries because most of them are carriers of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, syphilis, tuberculosis and pneumonia.
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According to the General Staff, the Russians are actively converting hospitals in the occupied territories into military hospitals. Meanwhile, local residents are being denied medical help because hospitals are full of injured intruders.
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It was previously reported that the Wagner Group recruited many of its mercenaries from Russian prisons. Many of the convicts are infected with serious infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency’s press office says Wagner marks such convicts with wristbands – red for HIV and white for hepatitis.
Several fighters with HIV or hepatitis are already in Ukrainian captivity and have confirmed reports of Wagner’s massive recruitment of infected prisoners, NV’s sister publication Ukrainska Pravda reports.
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