Captured Russian mercenaries have actually exposed the lies they were offered to register to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Until just recently, Victor and Anatoliy were both serving prolonged sentences in jails in Russia– the very first for the killing of a Chechen male, the other for battling.
That is till Yevgeny Prigozhin– called ‘Putin’ s chef’– helicoptered to their prisons, guaranteeing them ₤ 2,200 a month and to clean their rap sheets tidy.
They were parachuted to the frontline as Wagner Group fighters after 6 weeks of ‘very tough training’ with attack rifles, gatling gun and mines.
They informed the Mirror about being tossed into the scaries of war, seeing pals butchered as useless cannon fodder ahead of the Russian Army ahead of the 1 year intrusion anniversary tomorrow.
Viktor, a dad-of-two from Stavropolsky area in Kavkaz, stated: ‘We were informed other nations were associated with the war in Ukraine, consisting of Britain, which we were protecting Russia versus foreign terrorists.
‘We were told we would not be fighting civilians, but fascists and soldiers from other countries.’
In overall, about 200 males in his jail accepted sign up with the Wagner Group, with hopes of ‘a fresh start’ after the war in Ukraine is won.
After registering in September in 2015, Viktor was taken by bus to Rostov, close to Ukraine, and after that to Luhansk, in Donbas,
‘With a criminal record I would not be able to get a job, and I felt I had no choice, even though it took a week for me to decide to join Wagner,’ the ex-builder stated.
‘We would be sent in groups of 15 against what they said were just ten Ukrainian soldiers, then we’ d find there depended on 40 Ukrainians.’
Viktor explained what was taking place on the frontline of the war as ‘shocking and horrible’, detailing how he would see ‘arms and legs being shot off in battles’.
Like Viktor, Anatoliy was likewise recorded by the Ukrainian Army while battling as a mercenary for the prominent group.
He had 18 months left on his 3 years and six-month sentence for battling when Prigozhin flew into his jail searching for employees.
The vehicle mechanic, from Samara, main Russia, explained the oligarch as a ‘serious man’.
Again like Viktor, Anatoliy stated he was not informed where he was being released to, however he ‘understood we would fight in Ukraine’.
‘We were doing full-scale attacks and I was in five big battles and Wagner Group was always ahead of the Army,’ he stated.
Anatoliy was recorded by Ukrainian forces after he and his Wagner pals were sent out into a fight versus Kyiv’s forces in Donbas.
He stated: ‘Eventually I was alone, determined by Ukrainian forces. Wagner Group sent out in another detachment of 10 males and the sniper eliminated 5 of them.
‘I was lying there with no more ammunition, a Ukrainian soldier standing above me with a machine gun. He fired into the ground near my legs as a warning. I was then taken prisoner unharmed.’
Wagner Group includes around 50,000 soldiers mainly hired from Russian jails.
It has actually played a definitive function in the war in Ukraine, working along with the Russian army however independently from the official military command.
But previously this month,Metro co.uk reported Putin is comprehended to be reducing the group in the middle of worries they have actually ended up being too effective.
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