The feared Russian mercenary group Wagner has become so desperate for recruits after heavy losses on the battlefields of Ukraine that they have turned to Pornhub to recruit soldiers.
Wagner placed a provocative ad on the porn site telling male viewers to stop pleasuring themselves and instead join the private army and fight in the Ukraine.
In the since-deleted ad, a blonde woman in red lipstick is seen seductively sucking on a large lollipop while another woman’s voice rasps in the background, “We’re the coolest army in the world.”
We are recruiting fighters from all regions of Russia. Fuck off, go work for PMC Wagner,’ the woman says before Wagner’s recruiters phone number appears in the middle of the screen.
The video was posted on Pornhub and viewed by viewers in Russia without an ad-blocker and VPN before the site removed the ad, it reports. Pravda.
In the since-deleted ad, a blonde woman in red lipstick is seen seductively sucking on a large lollipop while another woman’s voice rasps in the background, “We’re the coolest army in the world.”
The ad had been shared by Pornhub users from the Kemerovo and Volgograd regions of Russia, the news outlet reports.
A Pornhub spokesperson said news week that the ads have been removed and that the website does not allow ads related to the policy.
Wagner’s desperate drive to recruit more soldiers, even using outlets like Pornhub to do so, comes as the mercenary group has suffered heavy losses in Ukraine, especially in the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
On Monday, the UK Defense Ministry said Wagner’s boss, Vevgeny Prigozhin, had likely lost access to Russian prisoner recruitment “because of his ongoing disputes with Russian Defense Ministry leaders.”
In fact, the Defense Ministry added: “It is very likely that Prigozhin will direct recruitment efforts towards free Russian citizens.”
Prigozhin said on Friday that Wagner had opened recruitment centers in 42 cities as he seeks to replenish his ranks after heavy losses in the fight for Bakhmut.
Wagner’s desperate drive to recruit more soldiers, even using outlets like Pornhub to do so, comes as the mercenary group has suffered heavy losses in Ukraine, especially in the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. In the photo: Yevgeny Prigozhin with convicts
In recent days, masked Wagner recruits have also given career talks at Moscow high schools and distributed questionnaires titled “Application for a young warrior” to collect contact details of interested pupils, the Kingdom’s Defense Ministry said. Kingdom at the intelligence briefing on Monday.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Wagner has deployed 40,000 convicted prisoners to fight in Ukraine, making up the vast majority of the group’s personnel in the country.
About half of those prisoners are likely to have become victims of war, the UK Defense Ministry said, while the White House put the number at more than 30,000 in February.
Last month, Prigozhin said he had stopped recruiting prisoners as he quarreled with Russian military officials over ammunition supplies to his private army.
An ex-con who served nine years in jail for robbery and street mugging in the 1980s, Prigozhin has emerged from the shadows to assume a high profile since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But his public profile, his political influence and his fondness for profanely criticizing the top army commanders and anyone who gets in his way has infuriated some in the government who want to be reined in.
In fact, Prigozhin has continued to demand that Russia supply him with more ammunition, reinforcements and cover support if he is to win the months-long battle of attrition at Bakhmut.
Prigozhin’s appeal last week came amid signs of a deepening rift between him and the Defense Ministry, whom he has bitterly criticized for months and accused of deliberately depriving his men of ammunition, a charge that has refused.
Members of the Ukrainian special unit gather in the forest near Bachmut in the Donbas region on March 15.
A member of the Ukrainian special unit checks and prepares his weapon in the forest, near Bachmut, in the Donbas region, on March 15.
“I knock on all doors and sound the alarm about ammunition and reinforcements, as well as the need to cover our flanks,” Chief Wagner said in a statement released by his press service.
‘If everyone is coordinated, without ambition, without mistakes or tantrums, and they carry out this job, we will block the Ukrainian armed forces. If not, everyone will be screwed.
Prigozhin said earlier last week that his representative had been denied access to the headquarters of Russia’s military command for Ukraine and was still not receiving enough ammunition despite repeated public complaints.
Prigozhin said his representative had been rebuffed by top army commanders a day after he urgently requested ammunition supplies.
‘On March 5, I wrote a letter to the commander of the SMO (special military operation) group about the urgent need to allocate ammunition. On March 6, at 8 am, my representative at the headquarters had his pass canceled and access denied,” Prigozhin said via his Telegram press service.
He noted that Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, had said that he was in favor of Bakhmut’s continued defense and reinforcement and said it was obvious that Kyiv would fight for Bakhmut ‘until the end’.
That, he said, meant that his men needed to completely encircle the Ukrainian forces inside Bakhmut.
“We must do our job to the end too,” Prigozhin said. ‘But when the whole world gathers around you, you need someone to work with you,’ he added, in an obvious reference to the Defense Ministry.
