A former Wagner commander requests asylum in Norway to testify against its founder

Soldiers from the Wagner group pose in a salt mine located in Soledar, a town where the toughest fighting has taken place in recent weeks. / REUTERS

Andrei Medvedev is the first commando to flee Russia and claims he witnessed the execution of mercenaries for refusing to fight

There is a date in the life of Andrei Medvedev that he will regret for the rest of his life. It is July 7, 2022, the day he placed himself under the orders of the Wagner Group, the fearsome mercenary militia that only responds to the orders of its founder, the oligarch close to Putin Yevgueni Prigozhin. That summer day last year, Medvede

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