A Wagner mercenary has revealed that warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin trained his troops to kill Ukrainian women and children by throwing grenades through their windows and doors before entering their homes to “finish them off.”
The fighter, Maksim Zelenov, confessed that Prigozhin, who is believed to have been killed in a plane crash last month, told him how to kill Wagner-style when invading villages in Ukraine.
In a video, the former police officer is asked by human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, “Who gave the order – two grenades in a window, two grenades in a door, and then walk in and finish (the wounded)?”
Zelenov, seen on the video under the name Wagner man 1, replied: “Prigozhin himself. Yes, I’ve killed a lot of people.’
Osechkin asked, “How many elderly, adults, and how many children were among the dead?”
Zelenov replied, “When we got to that five-story apartment building, we must have killed about forty people.”
In a video, the Wagner fighter, identified as former police officer Maksim Zelenov, is asked by human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, “Who gave the order – two grenades in a window, two grenades in a door, and then walk in and be done. (the wounded)?’ Zelenov, seen on the video under the name Wagner man 1, replied: “Prigozhin himself. Yes, I’ve killed a lot of people.’
A second combatant, Alexei Chernyavsky, said Prigozhin told him, “Be prepared that as soon as you enter houses, you will have to kill women and children.”
A second combatant, Alexei Chernyavsky, said Prigozhin told him, “Be prepared that as soon as you enter houses, you have to kill women and children.
“It doesn’t matter who, they should all be killed because they are Ukrainians.”
Chernyavsky, a former police officer identified in the video as Wagner man 2, reiterated the orders he was given.
“They said if we take over towns and villages and break into homes, we will kill women and children,” he said.
“Before entering the premises, we had to throw a grenade, then go in and if women and children inside were injured instead of killed, then we had to finish them off – because they are Ukrainians.
“We had to kill everyone. We are Wagner, we kill everyone.’
The sickening admissions come as Ukraine’s military intelligence has said it cannot confirm the death of Wagner warlord Prigozhin in a plane crash last month.
Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin personally ordered his fighters to commit war crimes by killing women and children in Ukraine, two of his troops have revealed (pictured)
Prigozhin is depicted with Wagner troops in an unknown location
Amid a flurry of conspiracy theories, it is emerging that the Wagner boss may have cheated death by placing a body double on his doomed business jet that crashed in Russia on August 23.
Many in the West believe he was assassinated at the behest of Vladimir Putin in revenge for the coup he led against the dictator’s regime in June.
Ukrainian military intelligence spokesman Andrey Yusov said Kiev is confident Wagner’s military commander Dmitry Utkin, 53, was killed in the plane crash in Russia’s Tver region along with other Prigozhin associates.
But of Prigozhin – whose death was announced by Russian authorities on the basis of DNA evidence – he said: “We have to work with confirmed facts, we have to wait.”
He said, “I will simply concentrate on confirming the death of Utkin and several other associates of Prigozhin.”
Members of the Wagner group in a military vehicle in Rostov-on-Don late June 24, 2023 after Prigozhin sent his fighters to overthrow military leaders in Moscow
The burning wreckage of Prigozhin’s private jet near the village of Kuzhenkino in Russia on Aug. 23
He said that with Prigozhin “not all questions are closed yet.”
Telegram channel Brief said Russia has classified all the details of the plane crash that allegedly killed the warlord.
“According to insiders, the case of the Embraer plane crash has been classified as ‘secret’ and special scrutiny has been put in place on the materials of the case so that no information can leak to the media without authorization,” said a spokesperson for the agency. Police. report.
Russian political analyst Dr. Valery Solovoy believes security paranoid Prigozhin is still alive, having cheated death when his Embraer Legacy 600 plane crashed.
“(He) enjoys life in a very good resort,” abroad, but not in Africa, where Wagner has several broadcasts.
Solovoy said he would reveal which country gave Prigozhin a safe haven.
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