Wagner mercenary commander flees Russia and seeks asylum in Norway
A former member of an infamous The group of Russian mercenaries who fought in Ukraine say they have dramatically escaped to Norway, where they are seeking asylum and offering to cooperate with international war crimes investigations. Andrei Medvedev commanded a squad of Wagner's paramilitary forces in eastern Ukraine before fleeing after witnessing the execution of former prisoners who were conscripted into the war, he said in a video released Monday by a Russian rights group.“I am afraid of a painful death,” Medvedev told Vladimir Osechkin, founder of Gulagu.net, who said he helped the former mercenary leave the country after he…
