Wagner Group: Deserter reveals executions ordered by mercenary commanders in his own troops

The commanders of the Wagner mercenary group, who account for the last Russian victories in Ukrainian frontthey act with their people as with “cannon fodder”, “gather those who do not want to fight and shoot them in front of the recently arrived comrades.”

Here is how the former commander of this group talks about it, Andrey Medvedevto the American network CNN from Oslo, where he is seeking asylum after defecting from a group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and confidant of President Vladimir Putin.

“Those who did not want to fight were rounded up and shot in front of the new arrivals,” the 26-year-old ex-military man says. they all were buried right in the trenches dug by the apprentices.”

Medvedevwho says he previously served in the Russian army, joined Wagner As a volunteer. moved on to Ukraine About ten days after signing the contract in July 2021, he served near Bakhmut, a front-line town in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. CNN.

A fake press pass set up by an NGO helped Andrei Medvedev escape Russia by claiming that Wagner group he lacked strategy and improvised on the spot.

“There were no real tactics. We only received orders about the position of the enemy … There were no clear instructions on how to behave. We just planned how to act, step by step. Who will open fire, what happens, we would .. How would it have turned out. That was our problem,” he said.

“Cannon fodder”

As he told the American network, on the sixth day of his deployment in Ukraine I already knew I didn’t want to go back to that country after seeing how they turned the troops into cannon fodder.

He began with ten men under his command, which increased as the prisoners were allowed into the group. He explained, “There were more and more corpses, and more and more people came in. team, he said. “I couldn’t count how many there were. They were in constant circulation. Corpses, still prisoners, still corpses, still prisoners.

He also denounced that enrolled prisoners were told that their families would receive a salary of five million rubles (about $71,000) if they died in the war.

But in reality “no one wanted to pay that kind of money,” Medvedev said. Many Russians who died in battle Ukraine they were “simply reported missing,” he said. (EFE)