Posted on 04/18/2023 10:36:40 PM PDT by familyop
Two Russian former convicts who claim they served as commanders for the Wagner mercenary group have apparently confessed to murdering hundreds of civilians, including children, in Ukraine.
Both of the men gave interviews to an exiled human rights activist who runs the website Gulagu.net, which reports on corruption and torture in Russia.
The former convicts -- Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev -- were pardoned by Russian presidential decrees last year, according to Gulagu.net.
In an hour-long confession, the men describe their actions in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, including executing 60 wounded prisoners, some of whom were Russian soldiers who refused to continue fighting.
The men say these events took place in Soledar and Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine's Donestk region in February 2023. However, Euronews could not independently verify these claims.
"We got the order to kill anyone" Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev both claim they decided to come clean due to feelings of guilt. One of the ex-mercenaries describes harrowing scenes of killing a child.
"As we entered Soledar and Bakhmut, we got the order to kill anyone: men, women, children, the elderly. A little girl was screaming. She must have been five or six years old. I shot her. A kill shot straight in the head.”
“I want Russia and other nations to know the truth. I don’t want war and bloodshed. You see I’m holding a cigarette in this hand. I followed orders with this hand and killed children,” Azamat Uldarov said.
The ex-convicts said they received their kill orders directly from Wagner Group boss Evgeniy Prigozhin.
Wagner is a Russian private mercenary organisation and has thousands of fighters from Russian prisons, in exchange for promises of pardons or reduced sentences if they survive.
The activist who interviewed the men published documents as proof the pair had spent time fighting in Ukraine. They apparently returned back to Russia with medals and money.
When confronted with these claims, Evgeniy Prigozhin’s press service on Telegram released a statement saying: “Regarding the execution of children, of course, no one ever shoots civilians or children, we don't need to do that. We came there to save the Ukrainians from the regime they are under.”
The video caused a stir on social media with many politicians reacting to it. The head of the Ukrainian Presidential office tweeted, saying: “Confession is not enough. There must be a punishment. Tough and fair. And it will definitely be. How many more crimes like these have been committed?”
Ukrainian prosecutors have started an investigation based on the ex-soldiers' interviews.
The confession comes as a disturbing video was shared online last week allegedly showing a Wagner mercenary decapitating a Ukrainian prison of war.
Ukraine has promised to investigate the gruesome video circulating on social media.
According to the Jerusalem Post article, the two “testified” in a “video published by Russian human rights NGO Gulagu.”
Dead. Men. Walking.
Prigozhin has sent a message for the men to return to Wagner to sort this all out, with his personal guaranty he won't kill them. Pinkey promise. Maybe they just don't care any more. There was also a video released of one of the men being raped by other Wagner mercs. Apparently standard punishment for any screw-up. The Wagner version of a "code red".
Prigo ping
Maybe we’ll start seeing pictures of him shirtless and riding a bear before long. ;D
Russia claims to be fighting a moral war as a “white Christian nation”
yet
- it is using Muslim Jihadis to kill Christians
- it is committing horrific acts
What is amazing is that so many freepers are falling for this Kremlin propaganda
Prigozhin cultivates a decidedly horrible image for his own safety. This way he is no threat to Putin. Even serves Putin because he can point to Prigozhin and say “if not me then these are the other guys”.
And, with regard to them killing "women and children" ... the other 93 genders must really be offended that they were not part of the statistics.
Who am I to believe? The side I know next-to-nothing about, or the side that has as its figurehead an old, demented pedo who reads speeches before what appears to be the gates of Hell?
Did they also take babies out of incubators?
Why are you falling for the Biden/Soros/Media propaganda? Do you think they suddenly stopped lying to us?
It's not like we killed 6 kids that were in a family of Afghanistan supporters of the United States...
So weird. Children die in war? I've never heard of such a thing.
The Ukrainians would never kill children....right?
yet
- it is using Muslim Jihadis to kill Christians
- it is committing horrific acts
What is amazing is that so man freepers are falling for this Kremlin propaganda
FReepers falling for propaganda..... ok, riddle me this.
Go on ANY search engine and try to find reports of the Ukrainian Army fighting the Russian seperatists and "accidentally" killing children by indirect artillery fire.
Go to ANY search engine and find video, photo or written descriptions of ANY RUSSIAN destruction of Ukrainian armed forces or casualties other than to feed the evil empire narrative, plucky Ukrainian narrative, childen murdering narrative. etc.... women, children and minorities affected mainly by the Russians....
There is NO MORAL WAR.. it's just "War".
What do you think the endpoint will be in this "war".
What exactly do you think it will take to make the Russians look around, shrug their shoulders and say, "ah, f#@k it. I'm going back to Russia and you can have the eastern Ukraine,......"
In fact, you can have Crimea, you can have all the oil/natural gas/food production and we don't want a warm water port in the Black Sea...."
Puttind down his vodka and add, "oh and by the way. Please put missles in Urkraine that are within 500 miles of Moscow. We know you or the US or NATO would never put nuclear weapons on missles, like the fake news says they have done in Germany, Belgium, England and France..... heck, we're used to losing 30 Million civilians in war. It's no big deal."
I live about 50 miles from the border with Ukraine.
And no, there ain’t Ukrainians killing children.
Do you have people driving around with Build Back Better stickers on their cars in your neighborhood?
Nope. Actually most folks around here don’t put stickers on their cars, not even on the bumpers.
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