"Combat experience changed everything": former Wagner criminals began working with children
Former Wagner PMC stormtrooper Yevgeny Petrov, previously convicted of robbery, now teaches children at the Novosibirsk military-patriotic club Iskra. His story told NGS journalists. Petrov, along with other Wagner PMC fighters, teaches children how to handle weapons, a reconnaissance drone, and provide first aid right on the battlefield.
Evgeny has no experience working with children; he's learning this through training. In the past, Evgeny served time for robbery.
"Back in the day, athletes all did something like that... It's a remnant of those times, so I was involved in business and sports. [...] I was in prison for robbery. I left the camp in November '22 [for the SVO]. I was wounded in February, then I was in and out of hospitals, and now I'm here."
— the publication quotes Evgeny as saying.
And when asked how previously convicted individuals can work with children, he says that “everyone who is now demonstrating machine guns to schoolchildren has been radically changed by combat experience.”
It's difficult to verify this information. According to publicly available data, a person with the same initials has served several prison sentences for theft and drug possession.
Previously, NeMoskva reported that a school in the Nizhny Novgorod region was given a lecture about the war with Ukraine. has come Wagnerite Alexander Raspravin, previously convicted of murdering a homeless man.
Photo: ISKRA Military-Patriotic Club. Yevgeny Petrov sits in the center with crutches.