A former leader for Russias Wagner personal military group who claims to have seen a number of extrajudicial killings has actually gotten away to Norway and requested asylum, Russian activists and Norwegian media reported.
I heard canines barking [and] 2 bullets flying near me, the guy determined as Andrei Medvedev stated of his dramatic journey across the Russian-Norwegian border late recently to the human rights NGO Gulagu.net.Norwegian media said Medvedev, whose identity was not understood at the time, was apprehended after illegally crossing the Russia-Norway border last Friday.Lawyer Jens Bernhard Herstad validated to Norways Verdens Gang day-to-day Sunday that the guy who crossed the border was Medvedev.Gulagu.net declared that Medvedev led the unit of Yevgeny Nuzhin, a founded guilty killer recruited by Wagner who was recaptured by the group after he gave up to Ukrainian forces.
Gruesome video footage released in November revealed Nuzhin being bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer by a Wagner fighter.
Gulagu.net claimed that Medvedev, who comes from the Siberian area of Tomsk, had actually left Wagner upon the expiration of a four-month contract he had actually signed in early July 2022.
Medvedev formerly appeared on electronic camera in mid-December claiming to have experienced Wagner soldiers carrying out numerous extrajudicial killings against comrades who declined to go into battle in Ukraine.
Medvedev is currently affirming against Wagner creator Yevgeny Prigozhin and about the alleged extrajudicial killings, according to Gulagu.net.He is the very first Wagner unit leader to have left to Europe and expressed readiness to provide statement on its supposed crimes, Gulagu.net founder Vladimir Osechkin stated.
Wagner, which operated in the shadows for many years prior to Russias invasion of Ukraine, has seen its public profile grow for its function in supplementing the undersupplied and ill-equipped Russian army in Ukraine.
Prigozhin, a St.
Petersburg organization magnate frequently described as Putins chef for his longtime function supplying catering to the Kremlin, confirmed that he established Wagner in September.The United States has issued a federal arrest warrant for Prigozhin on charges of supposed interference in the 2016 U.S.
governmental election.
Prigozhin last fall admitted to interfering in the U.S.
elections after years of denials and disparagement suits versus journalists.