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Chris Hughes

Russian mercenary says soldiers refusing to fight are shot and thrown into graves

A runaway Russian mercenary has described the frontline brutality served up by the Wagner Group with soldiers refusing to fight executed in front of terrified recruits.

Andrei Medvedev, 26, who is seeking asylum in Norway, claims after being shot the accused fighters were buried in holes excavated by the newly signed up troops.

The terrifying claims were made by Medevev - who branded Wagner boss Yevgeny Prighozin “the devil” after he escaped fighting near Bakhmut, Ukraine.

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