Andriy Medvedev, a former commander of the Wagner PMC who defected and went into hiding in Norway, says he recognized the voices in a video showing the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier whose authenticity is currently being verified, EFE and Agerpres reported Thursday.
“Vagner’s former fighter Andriy Medvedev, who fled to Norway, recognized the voices of his comrades in the video,” said Volodymyr Osechikin, the founder of the Gulagu.net organization, in his Telegram channel, where he published a fragment of his recording. intervention for the Khodorkovsky Live program.
According to this human rights activist, who lives in exile, the former mercenary “unequivocally recognizes his colleagues there, Wagner’s fighters, by their characteristic nicknames, by the way they speak, by what they say on the radio” during the beheading. Ukrainian soldier.
Osechikin announced a reward of 3,000 euros for information about the people filmed in the video. The founder of Gulagu.net contacted Medvedev to review the video, due to the fact that Osetekin supported the former mercenary in his escape from Russia to Norway after the ex-combatant approached him in December 2022 with a request for help avoid reprisals after leaving. before.
Osechikin reminded that this kind of execution is not the first time, as in 2017 video footage appeared of Wagner’s fighters beating a captive in Syria with a sledgehammer, then dismembering his body, dousing it with gasoline and setting it on fire. to him.
The boss of Wagner’s mercenaries denies that his fighters beheaded a Ukrainian
On Wednesday, the head of the “Wagner” PMC Yevhen Prigozhin denied that his units, which are currently fighting in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the east of the Donetsk region, had anything to do with the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier.
“I saw this video. It is bad when people are beheaded, but I have not found any indication anywhere that (the beheading) took place in Bakhmut or that Wagner’s fighters participated in this execution,” Prigozhin said in an audio recording published on his Telegram account.
For its part, the Kremlin asked to check this video, which is being circulated on social networks.
“First, the veracity of the images must be verified,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmytro Peskov said at a daily press conference, where he acknowledged the images were “terrifying.”
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