Commander of a Wagner PMC unit flees to Norway, is ready to testify against Prigozhin - human rights activists

This was announced today, January 15, 2023, by the Russian human rights center Gulagu.net, currently operating in exile.

According to the information provided, Medvedev "was able to leave Russian Federation territory near the settlement of Nickel, Murmansk region on Thursday, January 12, and, once in Norway, appealed to law enforcement agencies and requested protection and political asylum."

"Medvedev was taken under guard from the local airport to Oslo, where he was given accommodation in a center for people who have violated migration laws. In the coming days the procedure for political asylum and international protection is beginning," the statement of Gulagu.net reads.

Human rights activists say, "for the first time (since the start of the war - Ed), the former commander of a units with the Wagner PMC terrorist organization, who agreed to testify and expose the oligarch and terrorist Yevhen Prigozhin, involved in the murders of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, has fled from Russia to Europe."

In the video provided by Gulagu.net, Andrey Medvedev briefly says that he has evidence of the executions of people in ORLO of who had been enrolled in Wagner PMC, but who then refused to go to war against Ukrainians. We are talking about people recruited to the company from prison.

"As far as I know, some of the prisoners were buried on the spot," says the ex-commander of the Wagner unit.

Executed mercenaries, he added, were registered as "missing".

• According to the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vadym Denysenko, Prigozhin has political ambitions, but is not able to compete with Putin. Instead, according to Denysenko, the goal of the Wagner PMC owner is to build his own faction in the Duma.