ARTICLE WAR CRIMES
Former Wagner commanders confess to massive war crimes, including killing children
The New Voice of Ukraine
April 17, 2023, 11:30 AM
https://english.nv.ua/nation/former-wagner-commanders-confess-to-massive-war-crimes-including-killing-children-50318398.html
Former Wagner PMC commanders have confessed to committing massive war crimes against Ukrainians at the order of founder and leader Yevgeny Prigozhin during an interview with Russian human rights project Gulagu.net.
The commanders provided detailed accounts of how they brutally killed people, including the execution of over 20 Ukrainian children and teenagers, and the detonation of a pit containing more than 50 wounded captives, in a video published on April 17.
The former commanders said the orders came from both Prigozhin and unit commanders. Prigozhin also approved of terrorist methods and the brutality of the murders.
“I executed the order with my own hand — I killed children (...) We were ordered to sweep and destroy everyone (...) We killed everyone — women, men, pensioners, and children, including little ones, five-year-olds,” recounted former Russian prisoner Azamat Uldarov.
Former commander Alexei Savichev said that after the exchange of prisoners of war in February 2023, Russian officers gave orders to “shoot without words” anyone over the age of 15. Around 10 teenagers were executed along with others.
Savichev also revealed that failure to obey orders, including killing civilians, resulted in execution by firing squad.
“Russian terrorists have confessed to the murder of Ukrainian children in Bakhmut and Soledar. It’s about war criminals from the Wagner PMC, but this sheds light on the crimes of the Russian army in Ukraine. They kidnap our children and kill them (...) We will learn all the facts about the crimes and find everyone who committed them. We are doing everything to bring our children back,” he wrote on Telegram.
VIDEO – AGE RESTRICTED ONLY AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqdso9Hx_8
Gulagu.net interviewed former Russian prisoners who were recruited by Wagner. Both Uldarov and Savichev were personally pardoned by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in late August and early September 2022, and the project say they both are “100% in Russia.”
WAR CRIME VIDEO
PMC Putler: Exposing Yevgeny Prigozhin and Project K, their war crimes and brutality
Pinned by Gulag-No Official Channel
@MrGulagunet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqdso9Hx_8
TRANSCRIPT
00:04:03 Assassin mercenaries. Azamat Udarov tells how ex-prisoners after being pardoned were delivered by the IL-76 of the Ministry of Defense to the base of the “PMK Wagner” in Molkino, Krasnodar Krai (the documents systematically falsified the orders about allegedly staging in the IK-12 of the GUFSIN of the Rostov region and release from the IK-12 on September 28, 2022).
00:05:38 Certificate of the ex-convict from IK-1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Voronezh region Alexey Savichev
00:06:20 How do the majority of convicts relate to those who go to war
00:06:40 As in “PMK Wagner” a convict with 30 years of experience in Russian colonies was appointed commander of intelligence.groups
00:07:36 Alexey Savichev on how he was shot for refusing to follow orders
00:12:35 Alexey Savichev on the shooting of several Russians, including the ex-convict from the IR-1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Voronezh region, Reasonable Alexey Viktorovich, born on 28.04.1982 (The basis for the IC of Russia to initiate a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 105UK of the Russian Federation)
00:19:37 About how 2 “PMCs Wagner” are threatened with murder for giving interviews in the media and meetings with journalists (that is, members of the group “PMCs Wagner” threaten Russians with murder on the territory of the Russian Federation for divulging the terrible secrets of this terrorist organization
00:22:24 Alexey Savichev about how on January 19-20, 2023, by order of the higher commanders of the “PMK Wagner”, he threw 30 F-1 grenades into a pit measuring 1.2 m x 2m x 8 meters in length, filled with the bodies of killed and wounded Ukrainians and Russians in order to destroy the bodies and subsequently set fire to the bodies with gasoline (crime scene - between the barracks and the cannery in Bakhmut)
00:30:35 About the shooting of more than 10 teenagers and the murder of more than 20 unarmed Ukrainians by order (date of the war crime 7-9 February 2023)
00:35:26 About the order to “clean up the residential building” and the murder of all residents and those who were in it
00:37:24 Certificate of Azamat Uldarov (ex-convict, recruited in IK-13 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Saratov region)
00:38:52 About how personally the head of the Wagner PMCs, Yevgeny Prigozhin, gave the order to “clean up” Soledar and Bakhmut and kill everyone, including civilians, children and women
00:43:50 “Empty coffins”. How the commanders of the “PMCs Wagner” bring empty zinc coffins and coffins to the mothers of the murdered Russians, in which the remains of unidentified persons lie under the guise of allegedly the bodies of murdered relatives
00:49:02 About the 5th SHO (assault squad/squad) “PMK Wagner”
00:50:11 About the war crimes of “PMK Wagner” and the order of Yevgeny Prigozhin to kill everyone
00:54:10 Exposure of “Project K” and about a war crime - about the shooting of children on March 18, 2023
00:57:06 About the murder of Evgeny Nuzhin using a sledgehammer
00:58:42 About the preparation by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his accomplices of the murder of the founder Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin (in order to stop the revelations and publicity of inhumane schemes of “PMCs Wagner”)
01:04:10 About the murder of captured Ukrainians and about the methods of Yevgeny Prigozhin
01:06:50 Founder’s comment Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin