The war in Ukraine. Former unit commander of the Wagner Group Andrei Medvedev has applied for political asylum in Norway

For the first time since the beginning of the war with Ukraine, the former commander of one of the units of GRobbie Wagnerand ran away from from the Russian Federation The radio quoted Vladimir Oshkin, founder of the Jolago website.

According to his account, at the beginning of July 2022, he was a resident of the Tomsk region Andrey Medvedev I signed a four-month contract with Wagner Group. He was sent to Salsk, and from there to the Luhansk region, where he was appointed commander of the mercenary assault detachment.

Medvedev took part in the battles at Bakhmut, and the immediate commander was the former prisoner Yevgeny Nozin, whose head was allegedly crushed by Wagnerion with a sledgehammer after returning from Ukrainian captivity.

In mid-December, a video went viral on social media in which a man presented himself as a deserter Andrey Medvedev Talk about intimidating militants gWagner rupees. order it Federal Security Service (FSB) Search the mercenaries and their boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.

– Wagner’s security services began to persecute me, putting me on the wanted list of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Medvedev said at the time that I fear for my life and my health.