D.since last weekend the men of the Wagner group march to Moscow and rebel against the Kremlin, there had been much speculation about how mercenaries get their resources and what happens when one of them falls in combat. Now, various media have brought to light the salary of these soldiers and how much they pay the families if one of them dies.
“Between May 2022 and May 2023 the State allocated 86,000 million rubles (about one billion euros) for the maintenance of the Wagner Group”, confirmed Vladimir Putin himself. Based on this, the secret services of Western countries speculate with an amount close to 3,000 euros as salary of a Wagner mercenary, who is paid with money and gold.
What about the families of the Wagner group
Not the same payment, mind you, that Prigozhin offers to those he recruited from prisons until recently. To these He gave them a figure that was around 2,200 euros and a work contract close to six months. These are salaries well above what an average soldier receives in Russia, whose benefit ranges from 70,000 to 100,000 thousand rubles (750-1075 euros).
As regards the families of mercenaries in case of lossWagner pays them five million rubles, which is equivalent to something less than 55,000 euros. Proof that Prigozhin and his men are covered in any scenario.
For now, those belonging to the Wagner group have two options, as Putin himself indicated in his last statement before the Russian nation. On one hand, they can join the ranks of the homeland army or, conversely, go to Belarus. All this after ensuring that those responsible for the rebellion would pay the consequences and be “brought to justice.”
What is the Wagner Group?
He wagner group (officially called PMC Wagner) was first identified in 2014, when he was backing pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine. At the time it was a secret organization, operating mainly in Africa and the Middle East, and is believed to have numbered only around 5,000 combatants; Today it is estimated that Wagner commands 50,000 troops in the Ukraine.
Although mercenary forces are illegal in Russia, the Wagner Group registered as a company in 2022 and opened a new headquarters in St. Petersburg.
