Former Wagner commander describes brutality and incompetence on the frontline | CNN

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A former Wagner mercenary says the brutality he witnessed in Ukraine ultimately pushed him to defect, in an exclusive CNN interview.

Wagner fighters were often sent into battle with little direction, and the company’s treatment of reluctant recruits was ruthless, Andrei Medvedev told CNN’s Anderson Cooper from Norway’s capital Oslo, where he is seeking asylum after crossing that country’s arctic border from Russia. “They would round up those who did not want to fight and shoot them in front of newcomers,” he alleges.

Medvedev spoke to CNN from Oslo after crossing its border in a daring defection that, he says saw him evade arrest “at least ten times” and dodge bullets from Russian forces. He crossed into Norway over an icy lake using white camouflage to blend in, he said. He told CNN that he knew by the sixth day of his deployment in Ukraine that he did not want to return for another tour after witnessing troops being turned into cannon fodder.

 

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Wow. Who's next, an Isis terrorists' interview?

Insane! If you don't fight, we will kill you... Just crazy!

As much as CNN tries to push its Russian Propaganda on and on and on the results on the Battlefied is ALWAYS Contrary to what this biased News Network portrays. How on Earth are people falling for this Nonsense is beyond me.

He is absolutely right.If the brutality was related to Russia,I wish that now that this war of attrition is only the result of human death and destruction, and there is no way out,they would all run away, then Russia's hands would be free to a large extent.

Belgrade will not forget American bombs! The Iraqi people will not forget the American bombs! The Afghan people will never forget the American bombs! Many more people will not forget America's bombs.

Perhaps they learned that from Americans. Do you recall the My Lai massacre, Vietnam, 1968?

i agree with him...why continue in a war against an enemy who shoot an hospital killing dozens of their own people ? does it make sens ? i seriously understand his confusion...🙄

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