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Wagner mercenaries claim to have killed Ukrainian children

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‘She is screaming, she is a little kid, you know – five, maybe six years old. And I took a kill shot, you know? I was told to let no one out’, said Azamat Uldarov, blowing cigarette smoke at his phone camera.

Yesterday Russian human rights organization Gulagu.net published a video with two ex-convicts and ex-commanders of Wagner Group subdivisions – Azamat Uldarov and Aleksey Savichev – confessing their potential war crimes in Ukraine. Both Russians were recruited by Wagner’s founder Evgeny Prigozhin in penal colonies and pardoned by Vladimir Putin’s decree last year in exchange for fighting at war. 

‘I hold a cigarette in this hand. I carried out an order with this hand – I killed children’, continued Uldarov. ‘What we did when we entered Soledar and Bakhmut, that was such a scene. We were the last to arrive – a unit of 150 people.

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Svitlana Morenets is a Ukrainian journalist and a staff writer at The Spectator. She was named Young Journalist of the Year in the 2024 UK Press Awards. Subscribe to her free weekly email, Ukraine in Focus, here

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