Former mercenary of the Wagner Group, who fled last January from Russia to Norway ensured that the fighters of the Russian private military company decapitated Ukrainian soldier after identifying the voices on the video recording of the execution, the authenticity of which is being investigated.
“Veteran Mr. Wagner Andrei Medvedev, who fled to Norway, recognized the voices of his colleagues on the video,” Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the Gulagu.net organization, said on his Telegram channel, where he posted a fragment of his speech on the program. Khodorkovsky live.
According to this human rights activist, who lives in exile, the former mercenary “unambiguously identifies his colleagues, combatants Wagner because of their characteristic nicknames, because of the way they speak, because of what they say on the radio” during the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier.
Osechkin announced a reward of 3,000 euros for information about people appearing in the video.
The founder of Gulagu.net contacted Medvedev to analyze the video, as he supported him in his escape from Russia to Norway after an ex-combatant approached him in December 2022 asking for help to avoid extrajudicial execution after leaving the front.
Wagner boss denies beheading
Osechkin recalled that this was not the first case of this type of execution, since in 2017 videos of militants from Wagner beating a prisoner in Syria with a sledgehammer, then dismembering the body, dousing it with gasoline and burning it.
The day before the head WagnerYevgeny Prigozhin denied the involvement of his units, which are now fighting in Bakhmut in the east of the Donetsk region, in the beheading of a soldier.
“I saw this video. It is wrong when people are beheaded, but I have not found anything anywhere that would indicate that this is happening in Bakhmut or that the militants Wagner participate in this execution,” Prigozhin said in an audio recording posted on his Telegram account.
The Kremlin, for its part, called for verification of the video circulating on social media.
“First, we need to check the authenticity of the images,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at his daily press conference, in which he acknowledged that the images were “terrible.” (EFE)
Source: RPP
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