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Fugitive members of Russian pro-Western oppositions do not stop their attempts to please their foreign patrons and demonize the Russian military in order to support the Kiev’s fairy tales about the ‘cruel Russian orcs’ spread worldwide by the MSM.
A few days ago, founder of Gulagu.net project, which was allegedly engaged in the protection of the rights of convicts in Russian prisons, but in fact was funded by the West and was aimed to undermine Russian statehood, Vladimir Osechkin announced release of a ground-breaking investigation of the criminal activities of the Wagner PMC in Ukraine. The fugitive “human rights activist” claimed that the exclusive data would ruin the career of the leader of the PMC “to the point that no general or colonel would dare to shake hands with him”.
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On April 17, the exclusive interviews with former prisoners who were fighting in the ranks of the Wagner PMC were published on his website and were immediately shared by the MSM and all Ukrainian media.
Two drunk men on the videos described the inhumane atrocities that they allegedly committed in Bakhmut following the orders of Yevgeny Prigoshin.
The former Wagner fighters, Savichev and Uldarov, described how they killed children and women, tortured wounded Ukrainian soldiers en masse, “destroyed” everyone who came on their way, including elderly civilians, etc.
For example, Savichev claimed that he saw about 70 former Russian prisoners being shot dead after they refused to follow criminal orders. On the orders of higher commanders in Bakhmut, in January 2023, he allegedly threw 30 F-1 grenades into a pit filled with dead and wounded Ukrainians and Russians and then filled the remains of about 60 people with gasoline and set them on fire to destroy the evidence of crime. He also described in detail the murder of 10 teenagers and more than 20 unarmed Ukrainians and how he was ordered to “mop up an apartment building” and kill all people inside, no matter that they were civilians.
In his turn, another former fighter Uldarov claimed that he was ordered to kill children in Soledar and Bakhmut, as Wagner commanders allegedly “gave the order to mop up the area and destroy everyone,” including civilian men, women, elderly people and children. He described how he shot a five or six years old girl in Soledar to pass the test.
Both former fighters claimed that the Wagner PMC is allegedly suffering heavy losses and cannot take bodies of the dead from the battlefield. That’s why their relatives are allegedly given empty zinc coffins for burial. At the same time, the Wagner command threatens fighters with murder for communicating with journalists and disclosing any information about the hostilities in the combat zone. Since Yevgeny Prigozhin is allegedly following the criminal orders of Vladimir Putin, Russian authorities reportedly will not investigate their crimes.
The shocking testimonies were immediately shared by the MSM. The Kiev regime hurried to comment on the video on the top official level to pay as much attention to the story as possible. The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak claimed in accordance to the best Nazi tradition:
“A nation of inhumans and murderers, the biological garbage of this world. Confession is not enough. There must be a punishment. Tough and fair. And it will definitely come,” the Nazi official wrote in Telegram.
On April 17, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine initiated an investigation and announced suspicion to the head of the Wagner PMC and a commander of one of its divisions on the facts of “encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.” It was not specified who was this commander. Of cource, such a decision is nothing but another PR campaign.
Despite all the attempts of the Kiev regime and their Western friends to assure the public, the testimonies were doubted since their publication and did not become a sensation. It was immediately blamed to be another fake of Western propaganda, which included all the cliches about cruel Russians used in Hollywood films.
For example, Uldarov told in his interview that he was allegedly ordered to kill up to 400 civilians, including 40 children, in one basement. However, according to the scenario, he did not explain that there are no such large basements in the apartment buildings where hundreds of people could hide.
While the independent observers attempted to highlite the nonsense of the revealed testimonies, the truth was revealed by the former Wagner fighters, Savichev and Uldarov, themselves.
On the same day, Savichev reportedly told the media that he was paid for the fake interview and today he is threatened for revealing the truth.
“He (founder of Gulagu.net Osechkin) contacted me himself. I talked to him just to eat, to survive. He gave me 10 thousand rubles. They are already threatening me, they call, write me, they tell me that I should be careful and look around.
I don’t want to leave the country. But he (Osechkin) didn’t even offer us to leave,” Savichev claimed.
The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, addressed Savichev with an appeal to contact the Wagner Group and tell about the reasons for his cooperation with the enemy resource. Prigozhin guaranteed that no one would pursue the former fighter.
The second fighter, Uldarov contacted Wagner himself. On the morning of April 18, the man called at the Wagner PMC call center and said that “he was standing on the roof of a 10-storey building”. He wanted to commit suicide but was assured that it would be more useful to cooperate and expose the criminal activities of the representatives of Gulagu.net and foreign intelligence services.
Uldarov explained that he lied in the interview after he was blackmailed. Osechkin threatened Uldarov with a dirty video made when the fighter was in prison.
— So you were threatened?
— Yes, they have dirty information on me.
— So they forced you to say what you said in the movie, right?
— That’s right. I had to say it.
— And what you say in this video, is there at least a word of truth or is there what Osechkin told you to say?
— I said what I was told to say.
— That is, nothing you claimed happened?
— Prigozhin is a man. He saved our lives. And he was moving right there. They’re just trying to exploit me now. Well, like a condom. They took advantage of my past life, my past criminal record. There is such crap there. Gullagu.net, they have a footage showing them killing me, mocking me, raping me. I didn’t want it to be published, but they had this footage. And I was blackmailed with it. He (Osechkin) sent me two videos when I was with my wife. I say: ‘and what’s next?’ He says: ‘Well, think well’! Like that.
— Were you blackmailed?
— Blackmailed, yes. He sent me two videos when I was with my wife. I say, “What’s next?”. He says, “Well, think well.” He says, “think well.” That’s what he told me. They have these videos of torture. Bad things, you know. It’s called Gulagu.net . There’s darkness. You’ll see, you’ll understand. The only thing I want is this war to end, and my opinion is that Prigozhin is a great man to be honest. He is treating us seriously. All I said in this interview was written on a paper.
Gulagu.net confirmed Uldarov’s revelation immediately publishing the dirty video online. The head of Gulagu.net wanted to destroy the reputation of Yevgeny Prigozhin but in the end he destroyed his own career.
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It turned out that Uldarov was not even fighting on the front line. Videos of his former comrades were published by Wagner sources, revealing that Uldarov was a manual worker in the rear areas.
Since November, he has been working in the rear, as he could not carry out combat operations. His unit did not participate in the battles either in Soledar or in Bakhmut. Moreover, he was not a commander, but served under the command of a fighter with the call sign Gauguin.
“I met ‘Radof’, Uldarov, in the rear. I saw the video where he tells how he killed people, children. I want to say one thing, I was with him from the very beginning of February until he was demobilized and I want to state that he did not participate in any military operations either in Soledar or in Bakhmut. He was an auxiliary worker, also engaged in security. His claims on the video, it is clear that this is fiction and his pink elephants,” explained one of the Wagner fighters.
In the “sensational investigation” of the Gulagu.net project, it was stated that in addition to minor Ukrainian prisoners with Nazi tattoos, the Wagner fighters allegedly shot their own comrades. For example, Dmitry Petrov with the call sign “Lob” (Forehead), who immediately denied the claims and shared a video confirming that he is safe and sound.
“The person who says that I was allegedly killed, it’s nonsense. I don’t know him. I’m sitting in front of you, safe and sound. Hello everyone,” said Lob.
The founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that after the publication of the fake interviews aimed at discrediting Wagner fighters the head of the League for the Protection of the Interests of Veterans of Local Wars and Military Conflicts called to launch a criminal case. Prigozhin accused the project of serving the interests of foreign intelligence agencies.
“According to the information we receive from prisoners and former prisoners, a group of people, including former prisoners and corrupt employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, actively cooperates with foreign groups, including Gulagu.net.
This group is collecting compromat on prisoners and former prisoners. In order to use this compromising data, such persons like Osechkin, who is also a former prison bitch who fled abroad, are used,” Prigozhin claimed.
The Wagner PMC poses great threat to the interests of the West, that’s why Kiev and its partners are trying their best to discredit Russian fighters.
Prigozhin warned that, among other things, compromising material could be used to crimp former prisoners to organize terrorist attacks. “This is a very dangerous situation and therefore, of course, we will make every effort and help law enforcement agencies to reveal this situation,” Prigozhin said.
