Wagner Group continues to recruit fighters across Russia

The Wagner Group is still recruiting fighters across Russia, days after staging a mutiny that led President Vladimir Putin to raise fears of civil war. From Kaliningrad in the west to Krasnodar in the south, no-one believed the group was being disbanded.

In the Arctic city of Murmansk, a woman at the Viking sports club confirmed that she was still signing up fighters for Ukraine. Wagner's long list of contact points are mostly based at fight clubs, including martial arts schools and boxing clubs. A



Wagner fighter's salary remains a generous 240,000 roubles (£2,175) a month; the contracts are for six months. 

Moreover, new members were signing contracts with the mercenary group itself, not the Russian Defence Ministry. The demand for the mercenaries to transfer to the Defence Ministry, thus bringing the Wagner Group and its boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to heel, was at the root of the fierce feud that exploded into last weekend's armed uprising.