Employees of Wagner PMC, Russia's Security Service ask for asylum in France, testify about war with Ukraine

This was announced by the head of the Gulagu.net project Vladimir Osechkin, The Insider reports. 

According to Osechkin, the fugitives currently testify to the creation of the Wagners PMC as a "branch" of the GRU, corruption schemes of the FSB, the participation of Russian units in the war in eastern Ukraine, as well as a full-scale invasion.

"Now each of these people will testify about war crimes, and I hope they will have the opportunity to cooperate with the international investigation and testify about Yevgeny Prigozhin (curator of the Wagner PMC - Ed.) and other persons of the Putin regime. One of the major foreign TV channels is making material by the testimony of one of them. I can say that they relate to how the Wagners PMC was created under the Russian Ministry of Defense and the GRU, how the state created a system of financing and supplying PMC, and how these secret units participated in sabotage work in the east of Ukraine, directly in the Luhansk region. The FSB employee has a rather serious insider related to document circulation, with a large amount of important information that will be gradually published. The documents are related to the invasion of Ukraine, and to the processes that have been taking place recently, on the lines of the counterintelligence department and the Ministry of Defense," Osechkin said.

According to Osechkin, the Russians stated that they did not know about each other's intentions and found themselves on the same plane by accident.

"One person is related to the work of Prigozhin's headquarters and team, the other is an employee of the FSB. Both were on the same plane and both sent, according to the rules, their boarding passes. Therefore, seeing almost identical boarding passes with the same markings, we decided that two different  persons sent us one ticket, then looked closely and found out that one was sitting in the 28th row, the second - in the 29th. Both simultaneously went to ask for political asylum and international protection. It looked very strange - each of them decided that the other was here for his soul. The French police and the airport security service also had suspicions, as the situation is unusual," Osechkin said.

Osechkin noted that these people are not the only Russians from the power structures who fled abroad recently and are testifying.

"In recent months, a number of people who were directly related to Putin's regime left Russia. The head of one of the courts flew to one of the EU countries and gave quite detailed and consistent testimony about how the FSB and Putin's administration absorbed the independent judiciary and subjugated the judges, turning the system into a branch that makes stencil decisions on a phone call from curators," Osechkin said.