Azmat Uldarov and Aleksey Savichev, two former members of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group, confessed to killing more than 20 Ukrainian children and teenagers in Bakhmut and the Donetsk region of Ukraine. The revelation was made in an hour-long video released by a Russian human rights organization and cited by a US news site. political.
In the video, former fighters give details about the killings of several Ukrainians, such as blowing up pits with more than 50 prisoners of war and even killing their own compatriots who refused to continue the invasion.
Such situations reportedly occurred in Soledar, Donetsk region, and Bakhmut, Ukraine, in February of this year.
The two military men also testified that the Wagner group killed dozens of civilians while liberating residential buildings in Bakhmut and Soledar. Azmat Uldarov and Aleksey Savichev also claimed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner group, personally ordered executions and murders.
Two former participants cited “the inhuman conditions and torture that they had to endure” as a reason for revealing these events and want to “tell the truth about the crimes of the Wagner group in Ukraine against Ukrainians and even against the conscripts themselves.”
“I killed children with my own hands. When we entered Soledar and Bakhmut, we received orders to kill everyone. Men, women, children, old people. 6 years. And I killed her. I shot her in the head,” Uldarov said in the video.
Yevgeny Prigozhin denied that the Wagner military groups had ever killed children or civilians. After the release of this video, threats began to be received against the former combatants, the report said. political.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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