“I hope my testimony will help get revenge.” The story of a former Wagner mercenary who spoke out about the murders of objectors and prisoners
Andrei Medvedev. Photo: Gulagu.net / YouTube Andrei Medvedev, former commander of a Wagner PMC unit, left for Norway to seek political asylum. In the summer he fought in Ukraine, and a few months later he escaped from the frontline and contacted human rights activists about the executions of mercenaries who refused to fight as well as of captured Ukrainian soldiers. This is Medvedev’s story. “I heard two shots and the bullets just whizzed by so close.