Ex-Wagner commander who met Putin ‘likely to be considered a traitor by soldiers’ – as it happened

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP

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Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the minister of internal affairs in Ukraine, has posted an excerpt from an interview about Ukrainian air defenses in the Kharkiv region.

90% of the Ukrainian air defenses in Kharkiv region was destroyed in the first days of the full-scale invasion, the head of the Kharkiv garrison Serhii Melnyk ("Marcel") said.

According to him, the Russians knew the location and schemes of all air defense command posts… pic.twitter.com/2PKMeCyd4D

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 30, 2023