Defector from Russia's Wagner Group reveals the mercenary unit's actions in Ukraine

ABC News' Patrick Reevell reports that some in the U.S want to label The Wagner Group, a secretive Russian paramilitary unit operating in Ukraine, as a terrorist organization.
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[@Sanya2694]

I'm wondering who did the subtitles for 3:42 - 3:48. The subtitles absolutely do not match the words from the video in this time interval. Good job. He said something like "5 minutes you decide who wants to go with us and who doesn't"

[@Cooper_Raccoon]

What he said before that also doesn't match the subtitles

[@switchblade5847]

Because it's all so full of propaganda, they don't even care for accuracy like at all haha! West will be defeated and all your lies will be dismantled as your states - brick by brick - by your own citizens.

[@ffastlynx58]

It's too easy. "This is Wagner, the world's evil, they threaten people with execution even before they joined them" XD

[@guido69x]

Lmao!KZbin subtitles are allways a joke,even when they are in English and the video is in English!Looks like some sort of software like "Speach to text",cause some words have the same sound,most of the times can be pretty tricky!

[@turik97]

As a native Ukrainian-Russian speaking person fully confirming this. The translation of Prigozhin is completely made up, when he was speaking surrounded by the felons he asked whether anyone knows about Wagner and if yes they have 5 mins to decide whether they want to join them and if not then just leave. Bullshit about either join or get killed is literally made up.

[@-WhizzBang-]

Just the fact that you have to hire Mercenary Killers to force your own Soldiers to fight for you, says a lot!

[@iridefast1]

You mean like Ukraine.

[@-WhizzBang-]

@@iridefast1 Nope! Like the Russians! Dummy!~

[@beyondfossil]

@@iridefast1 It was seen that Putin's military was a first rate world power. So its quite a different context. The paper tiger is now abundantly exposed.

[@HungryGhost999]

@@iridefast1 foreign volunteers. They’re not paid fool.

[@John-rr9su]

What about "BlackWater" "Academi" "Northbridge Services Group" "Vinnell Corp" ? All american based private military companies(actual true mercenarys , they get paid to go into conflict zones) they fought in Iraq Afganistan BlackWater was even accused of war crimes ... how come they are not labeled as terrorist organisations ?

[@overdrive7349]

"In my opinion, yes." It's really disturbing that such vile people don't think of these war crimes as war crimes. They call it an act of duty, of honor to the motherland. But they were not the first.

[@MrSankiro]

3:46 translation is so wrong... he is saying "you have 5 minutes to think before we enter the building, so decide who wants to go or who wants to stay"

[@paulwalsh548]

Its a death sentence either way.

[@earljohnson2676]

Could you imagine doing a life sentence for whatever crime and this guy comes in and gives you an out. Thinking like a criminal I would be pumped and the carnage I could do with zero accountability to the local populace. What if there sex offenders they can do whatever with no accountability. I feel for the civilians in Ukraine who came across these evil men

[@louisavondart9178]

Don't worry too much about it. Most of the criminals are already dead, outside of Bakhmut.

[@nicholasclegg9935]

Ya allegedly no sex offenders are taken but cannibals were. And according to some study the average life span of one of them on the front is 4 hours

[@JohnWick-qr4yc]

@@nicholasclegg9935 they’re right to do that no sex offenders were taken they already have enough of those in the ruZZian military

[@marisamartin3664]

Yes I wish Putin and his generals/mercenaries the worst.

[@Cryosxify]

yeah but that out was a battlefield, if they cared about their lives that would be an instant nope

[@chrisdp6401]

Imagine that, not valued enough to even be counted when you die for your country

[@corflecklepingarflakaflaka2944]

Nothing new in the commune :)

[@marksuckaberg8966]

*US Prison Wardens* : "Here's some trash bags. Pick up our trash." *European Prison Wardens* : "Here's some books. Better your life." *Russian Prison Wardens* : "Here's some guns. Mutilate people whose land we want."

[@marvinr8280]

​@@Omegalulzin what part of EU are you livin in, Pal? I know some jailors, and yeah, in their workplaces, they're trying to get em dudes back into society

[@jaspal201]

USA: waterboard and torture

[@reillynadler296]

Real torture is being an captured by the monsters like A or I terrorists.. or do you call them freedom fighters.. if you save 100 women and children by water boarding one Isiss fighter at a time would you do it..these monsters brag about rapping children l!!!

[@theodemirweltmann9673]

What kind of stupid nonsense is that? No one is forcing the prisoners. Signing a contract is completely voluntary, no one is forcing them.

[@marksuckaberg8966]

@@theodemirweltmann9673 Nobody is saying they are being forced. But the whole point is, for most of the entire rest of the world, prison is viewed as a means to isolate criminals while the state rehabilitates them to become functioning members of society again. Russia is basically saying "you being a murderer / batterer / rapist isn't a bad thing, it's a great thing. here is a gun, for the next 6 months go kill the people we tell you to kill and you can do whatever you want to them -- kill em, torture em while you kill em, rape em, we don't care (cause we're gonna kill you by a suicide charge in 5 months and 29 days if the enemy hasn't killed you by then)"

[@klezper]

Prigozjin will probably fall out a window soon. He claims the Russian army not delivering ammo to them.

[@cosminlupascu8846]

Ammunition, I think, meant the prisoners and not the shells

[@jaimeperry7326]

Yeah that dude shouldn't leave the first floor ever ...

[@kd8199]

One can only help…I mean hope.

[@titanomachy2217]

Prigozhin is getting too powerful and popular with the Russian people, and Putin doesn't want anyone growing strong enough to become his rival, so I figure you may well be right.

[@kd8199]

@@crazyworldandatfullspeed - you are crazy. I feel sorry for you. Russia invaded another country. They started the war. Crazy world because of crazy people like you.

[@BorahaeBitch7]

I will never understand how some people could be so cruel and inhumane to other people. How did you grow up to be so heartless? Were you just born this way? There's definitely not good in everyone.

[@susansmith9263]

Unfortunately, humans are genetically predisposed to kill each other. 😔 Lethal violence is 7 times higher than the average of all mammals. Violence exists in the animal world of course, but on a far different scale.

[@jattdadanda]

Remember Iraq war when indiscriminately villages were bombed from air and tanks took direct shots at people's houses with women and children in them. Those US soldiers are having so many mental issues now.

[@mariadekelver2240]

What shocks me more is how individuals in all countries support these evil actions.

[@richardmoloney689]

Born that way. Many humans are simply psychopaths. Period.

[@twntwn11]

Childhood abuse, neglect and trauma does that to you

[@DegenerateToo]

What a way to get rid of overcrowded prisons. 😱

[@Chareidos]

Yea, it is very maddening, how powerful states are treating their own people. If you consider that in the US private companies get good money from the government for keeping prisoners, even incentivizing the whole affairs of persecution to fill up the prisons and build more on taxpayers bill. That is sick on its own. In China people disappear! And China has a huge organ donor industry. I do not want to think this to the end. In Russia they gather them and throw them at the enemy. I dunno what to think about that, but the level of inhumanity that has been reached makes me sick.

[@lolodee3528]

PutRin decides whom he doesn’t want to feed anymore.

[@christiandauz3742]

Not really. Once word goes out that the first wave of recruited convicts are mostly dead conscripting new prisoners becomes very difficult and very dangerous! Prison riots and killing of pro-Wagner guards skyrocket

[@timburton5950]

Many years ago, there was a movie (Dirty-Dozen), this idea has been around for a long time and is the same script except using real prisoners. The absolute lack of empathy is concerning as the public that encounters these soldiers have no chance against the laws they'll never recognize; this is hard to imagine going forward in the new millennium.

[@amaizeing.dumbass5123]

and, if remember correctly, in the movie, the lack of empathy made their mission a disaster

[@petercoleman2834]

I know what you mean, the British parachute regiment in 1972 shot 26 innocent people protesting in a civil rights march, 14 dead, the government of the uk ordered the commander of the regiment General Robert Cyril Ford, to hit hard, the British army killed a Priest Father Hugh Mullen. Shot the poor man, The British government sent armed troops in to a civil protest demonstration march, armed troops to stop unarmed civil rights marchers, it says it all

[@petercoleman2834]

@amaizeing.dumbass5123 successful mission, they killed all the senior german General staff officers, you have a bad memory, or selective

[@amaizeing.dumbass5123]

@@petercoleman2834 and they could pull off a successful escape if not for they decided to kill a random mook, and got the attention of the rest of the enemy. All of them ended killed for that matter

[@cheif506]

russia has been using prisinors for atleast 60 years, the penal battalion ww2

[@doubleslit9513]

If Wagner “stopped recruiting prisoners for now”; there can be only one such reason: They’re outta prisoners.

[@jaimeperry7326]

Dudes in prison are like no thanks, I love it here in the gulag. Ukraine sounds terrible.

[@tessjuel]

No, it's because the Russian army want the prioners for themselves.

[@jamesstreet228]

Ukraine has definitely thinned the ranks for sure.

[@scratchy996]

The recruitment was voluntary, but Putins has now banned Wagner from recruiting prisoners. Prigozhin is getting too powerful. The plan is to pass a law for mass amnesty from prison. And as soon as the prisoners get out, they get conscripted and sent to the front.

[@Disorder2312]

Nope. It's just because somebody ordered him to stop.

[@afrikaleta]

This chef turned criminal will soon fall out of the window.

[@pisceskid317]

It’ll come down to who throws who first

[@kaletamusic]

@@crazyworldandatfullspeed it s a tragedy when you respond to ignorants who are under such a dictator like Putin. I pass.

[@HungryGhost999]

@@crazyworldandatfullspeed if u know nothing about anything u might still know something

[@10jpmorgan]

I'll bet Putin won't eat anything his chef would serve him now!

[@kaletamusic]

@@10jpmorgan absolutely He won’t

[@JoeGnahz]

respect to those who realized the evil that they once stood with and now decided to stand against. he could just stay low and hide somewhere instead of showing his face in news, this takes a great deal of bravery

[@MJ511KW]

No he’s a traitor why would somebody betray his country for money ? He could’ve just not fought with them but joining the other side ? There’s a special place in hell for traitors

[@Sedonawhite]

​@@MJ511KW wtf !? yeaa no one thinks that about this situation lol you're out there man 😂

[@user-uj7dh1or9v]

He is not brave, he is a traitor, he joined WAGNER by his own will, he escaped, and he is snithcing and maybe talking lies about his homeland, that man is just coward and traitor

[@oscarmanetti2098]

There is nothing interesting, on both sides. Today the both ways propaganda is trying to picture who is worse and who is good, this is a paradox and a game. We should not believe anyone from both sides! BBC , VICE and Oliver Stone did a great job and neonazi militias in Ukraine and Wagner is not a big secret or news! He decided and he knew what was going to do, same as Azov and the other ukrainians battalions of death. in a war no one is better or innocent, all have their own hand covered with blood, Zelensky included! greetings

[@VengefulMaverick]

​@@user-uj7dh1or9v what's worse. Being a traitor, or a sociopathic freak, murderer for a tyrannical regime? I'll take the former any day bud.

[@observereye7221]

its amazing that whole country is rulled by literal criminal mafia...

[@Jenni3737]

I live in Russia and I know people in the Wagner group. The country it not run by the Mafia it is run by the Oligarchs who’re more dangerous than the mafia

[@observereye7221]

@@Jenni3737 when a criminal business is condemned by law, it is called a mafia, but when they become law, it's called an oligarchy

[@emiliobello2429]

No to war

[@emilegriffith1473]

What if war still says yes to you..

[@thetruthsayer8347]

No to Putin’s war

[@Rogerban]

Tell spewtin.

[@grahammurphy1178]

Please Join me in reporting to KZbin Hindustan Times. This channel on KZbin is constantly spewing out Pro Russian anti West Propaganda and hatred. Almost all the commentators spew out Nuke the West and other incitement to violence and Hate speech. The channel is horribly one sided and misleading and doesn't deserve a platform on KZbin just as RT and Sputnik TV were similarly banned. Thanks!

[@FoxHoundsPain]

The US Imperialists love war. The American Empire is built on war.

[@NotThatGuyPal.]

“They throw people In just as meat” Welcome to the infantry.

[@alienrobbeing8294]

Some don't even get a gun, just told to charge through the front line and getting the positions of the Ukrainian soldiers when they're firing at them, Nobody's life is special, especially excons, sad world we all stay in, Spooky sad world.

[@bleujay03]

Well they dumb. Best strategy is night or heat vision. And everybody fire at the same side

[@beyondfossil]

Funny. But that's not how most infantry operate.

[@grahammurphy1178]

Please Join me in reporting to KZbin Hindustan Times. This channel on KZbin is constantly spewing out Pro Russian anti West Propaganda and hatred. Almost all the commentators spew out Nuke the West and other incitement to violence and Hate speech. The channel is horribly one sided and misleading and doesn't deserve a platform on KZbin just as RT and Sputnik TV were similarly banned. Thanks!

[@ivanskirchak4935]

@@ktrimbach5771 Sources? Trust me bro. 🧐

[@feistyylilthing]

it sounds like the defected wagner guy found magic mushrooms in the forest and chose love

[@jeffrenman4146]

I think a lot of us just don't realize how evil a person can be… We are all at risk

[@Rooboy-619]

It's so hard to fathom there are fellow Americans believing Putin is not the bad guy and totally ignoring the regime's crimes. Not only in Ukraine but also in Syria, Georgia, Maldova, Chechnya, Dagestan, and so on.

[@mrderp1292]

It's so hard to fathom there are fellow Americans believing the US is not the bad guy and totally ignoring the regime's crimes. Not only in Ukraine but also in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Iran, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, and even the spying and political persecution waged against its own citizens.

[@y0h0p38]

@@dejansinadinovic73 Who said they arn't?

[@Joe-ul3gh]

90% of the commentators on here that are in support of Russia are bots.

[@FoxHoundsPain]

You have too much pf a kids mind for this topic. "Good vs bad". The US Imperialists and the Russians are the same. Two global super powers always in a struggle for control and influence. The US Imperialists destroyed Iraq and Libya in modern times but the Imperialists don't care.

[@Joe-ul3gh]

@@FoxHoundsPain Putin is a Dictator and Dictators only respect force.

[@Millzspec]

"they fear being killed" "Oh yes the defector is in norway"

[@theelaconic]

i was wondering if anyone else noticed that

[@nathanmcbow158]

He is certainly safer there, but the FSB still has plenty of operatives all over the place, the guy still has a target on his back, if not from Russian agents, then from angry civilians or refugees that are ready to lynch the guy for his involvement.

[@venkkooo]

Russians poisoned an innocent girl in Britain, in an attempt to assasinate a dissident. They have men all over the world

[@Millzspec]

@@nathanmcbow158 its just weird, they not only gave his location, but then proceed to show landmarks near where he is 🤦‍♂️

[@HegelsOwl]

"They want to get rich as MSM propaganda poster boys." "Oh yes, he'll be on every talk show, soon."

[@Thahorr]

Could’ve gotten this info out without giving his location

[@TheGoodkilo]

Well he's fake propaganda so he isn't in any real danger

[@Thahorr]

@@TheGoodkilo you support a dictator? Weird get the dic outcha mouth

[@finnilrebna348]

5:07 making that guy train with no weapon :/ you can tell times are rough…

[@Laura-te1sk]

I feel for this young man who did the right thing eventually but suffers so much for it. Ostracized by his own comrades, homeless, country less and probably penniless. Such courage to stand up for what is right.

[@aps1s]

dude, he was working for a terrorist org. not baking cookies. hes a terrorist

[@drakelang8342]

he did sign up to kill

[@MirceaBv]

@@drakelang8342 Or recruited by force....

[@bdon661]

He's being assisted by a group of Russian dissidents who live primarily in France. They take good care of him and he is likely to receive resident alien status in Norway or perhaps some other country in the EU. But he's one of the few lucky ones. Most Russian soldiers and mercenaries are coming home in body bags when their corpses are repatriated at all.

[@peters8181]

I hate Russia government not the people and the army. They either fight or watch their family die. Yes Putin kills a lot of women and children

[@AdamBorseti]

Christ, execution with a *sledgehammer* is fucking savage. These people are monsters....

[@notchomomma239]

It's important to remember that countries use these groups because "war crimes" don't apply to them.

[@airsoftboy14]

We do it also …. Black water

[@airsoftboy14]

We do it also …. Black water

[@mattjeffries8001]

All I can say is I hope every body gets to safety

[@deeznuts6218]

TRUE ... PEDO JOE Biden showered with his daughter. #FuckUkraine .....Z.

[@yorickroumimper]

Get your head out your ass. There is no safety in war.

[@mattjeffries8001]

@@yorickroumimper technically. War is nothing but WARNING with the Ning cut off because it was suppose to be a joke. This whole Hollywood all of it. Isn't real it's just trying to keep up with what the world is going through as we keep up with the politics of PR... ghost writer here.... hope that helps.... .

[@Bionau]

Why is the speech ( to the prisoners ) mistranslated? It says something completely different from the subtitles

[@genenightthunder2727]

then what did he really say?

[@LowejaDogs]

I'd like to know what he really said to??.

[@C0T0HA]

@@genenightthunder2727 3:22 "Only two can get you out (of here) - allah and god, both (get you out) in a wooden casket. I get you out of here alive. But I won't always return you alive. Any questions, lads? Or did I tell everything clearly?" 3:41 "We have 5 minutes to decide (unclear). Make a decision while (we're) here. Those who want can go." All other subtitles are either correct or don't change the essence of what's said. I have no idea why they changed it. It's not like what he said makes him a good guy or justifies the invasion.

[@iknowuare4716]

What a shocker!! The MSM in America are lying!

[@BogdanOfficalPage]

as a Russian speaker - I agree. probably the translator was like “ah whatever, no one will notice”

[@MustacheCashStash125]

“I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace, sooner or later though, you always have to wake up” - Jake Sully

[@apumpkinsmom]

There's another video that has the audio of one of these prisoners telling his wife that he was going to be executed. When his wife got his body back, she was told that he died of a shrapnel wound received during battle. The guy's entire battalion had been killed, and he was the only survivor. He was sent back to Russia, only to be executed as a traitor. Russia has no intention of sending any of these prisoners back with a pardon. They are being sent to Ukraine to as much damage as they can before they are either killed in battle, or by their own country.

[@user-pu9qo9po3c]

ложь.

[@chargedx5768]

That's a lie but go on

[@adolfhateler3735]

​@@user-pu9qo9po3c Соси сосиску.

[@SAIREX08]

🤮👎

[@eaglekeeper7608]

Try and imagine letting the worst of the worst murderers, rapists, sadists and serial killers etc out of American jails, arming them with unlimited weaponry and sending them into a foreign country to wield havoc and destruction without fear of reprisals. It’s truly frightening and barbaric to comprehend but this is precisely what Russia has done.

[@marianlynch4829]

Yes, but hasn't Ukraine done that too..

[@user-kk2uo8ew1h]

Who told you that Wagner is recruiting sadists, rapists and maniacs? You have them there in America and so they roam the streets, gangs and other riffraff.

[@parker20125]

Sounds like a good plan to me...

[@spellsnare]

@@marianlynch4829 source ?

[@billhobin07]

Like when America stopped kicking out gang members?

[@sumiland6445]

I believe Shoigu has forbidden Wagner from recruiting from prisons because Shoigu has started a parole program to enlist prisoners from all Russian prisons.

[@bleujay03]

More numbers. Win lose or draw

[@danwright1794]

@sum. Are you waiting for the report / interview of defecting Ukrainian troops on corp media. Doesn’t even pose a question for us here ? This is the nature of propaganda. I’m not a fan of propaganda. You ?

[@bleujay03]

@@nevash6537 no I'm about to look it up

[@gerrylee1687]

@@nevash6537no Russia allowed

[@geofflepper3207]

Announcement at Russian prison: "Good news loyal, Putin loving Russian comrades - you will no longer be forced to die pointlessly in a stupid, suicidal Wagner human wave attack. Instead you will have the honour to die pointlessly in a stupid, suicidal Russian army human wave attack. What's wrong comrades? Why aren't you cheering?".

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@HazbinHotelStaff]

If they’re showing where he is and just walking around, he isn’t really safe. They can send out an assassin once they can guarantee that it is possible.

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

Its one way of lowering the government's expenditure of clothing and feeding these prisoners for the rest of their lives.

[@coesforever1735]

You don't kill your own people. "If a kingdom is divided against itself ,that kingdom cannot stand"

[@jamesstreet228]

Exactly right.

[@wahoo897ms]

that statement has survived thousands of years

[@monforttransport]

Those defectors are not of the same kingdom. They're not in alignment with the goals of the nation, but enjoy all the benefits of said nation

[@kencleg7721]

That same line applies here also United

[@ziggyboogydude1]

look up Pat Tillman lol

[@chanichanti4241]

Prayers God protect him and provide for him 🙏 in Jesus name

[@SunRiseAMD]

There are a lot of inaccuracies in subtitles. Just in case

[@ShortFuseFighting]

its sad that we still live in a world where some are striving for such risible concepts such as "world domination for the sake of itself". like a cartoonishly cheesy bond villain

[@ktrimbach5771]

I know. The entire world should condemn the United States for their brutal hegemony

[@FoxHoundsPain]

You are an American Imperialist right? Why don't you start advocating for peace then and call to dismantle the American Empire. I bet you don't know how many smaller nations governments were over thrown by the US government and the CIA just to have control of their resources and build their Empire.

[@ShortFuseFighting]

@@FoxHoundsPain lol

[@DimasCociu]

@@ktrimbach5771 we are actually happy that we have good countries like the united states to fight these opressive rigimes from russia and china 😌

[@rickeyharris268]

@@ktrimbach5771 we don't need Russia for anyting American peopledon't even have Russia on their mind we don't care what's going on over there or not trying to take anything from you we don't want anything from you you just disillusion you believe all the lies we could care lass about what's going on in Russia all we want to do isearn a living thinking that we're against you and all this other lying crap sorry for you you need to get a life

[@jrp4623]

These ppl need to be brought to justice the world I'd better of with them not in it

[@honestazzhole3429]

What a stupid question when you realize these people will die eventually

[@robertgravely984]

Wagner should be considered a terrorist organization based on what exactly? In what ways is Prigozian like Bin Laden. People can’t just say things with no substance. Fighting in a war on the side of your country is not terrorism no matter if your country is right or wrong. Terrorists do things like blow up bridges with truck bombs and blow up underwater gas pipelines. Let’s find those people and charge them as terrorists first.

[@myview5840]

No justice for Iraq Syria or Afghan destroyed by the US for lies. Russia is in Ukraine for very real reasons.

[@shanep8386]

@@honestazzhole3429 Was Not a Question, It was OPs Opinion 😉

[@HistorysMysterys]

Just like Nuremberg

[@NotTheLastOne]

I mean, can we see the whole interview, not just the fragments cut out of context? really

[@reillynadler296]

You recruit a specific type of person.. orphan, someone brought up in violent environments or young hardened criminal.. put them thru a two year boot camp.. and give them leadership rewards all type of violence whether on the battlefield or as a civilian.. then reinforce it by what this soldier details in this interview..

[@Anonymoususer1930]

So basically Wagner is Russias version of the waffen ss

[@sviat9729]

Wagner is like in the tradition of the Cheka which executed their prey after inhuman torture.

[@oleopathic]

Yes. Good analogy.

[@zoso73]

No. Unlike Wagner, the Waffen SS had highly trained soldiers.

[@tumelochana345]

Russia'sversion of blackwater you meant.

[@rickygill7439]

Blackwater doesn't exist anymore

[@belmont8792]

I don't understand why they had to give up the Dude location😕

[@emilegriffith1473]

It's already known he claimed asylum in norway

[@goodfella5302]

It’s fake!

[@Ahoniu]

@@goodfella5302 🤡🤡🤡

[@rowdy5697]

@@goodfella5302 That's what all the loonies say.

[@goodfella5302]

@@rowdy5697 Trust your fake media and god bless you brother man!There’s actual war going on but most importantly there’s info (brainwashing) war happening right in a front of your eyes!If you’re not smart enough you will fall for mainstream media BS.Good luck bro!

[@collectivethoughts1379]

Apparently we forget that that is why officer in the military stood behind their soldiers... We did the same thing before,,,,

[@aey624]

Bros be doxxing the guy who's under protection lol

[@moonmunster]

Prigozhin is just a waiter.

[@CUMBICA1970]

So they get rid of convicts sending them to warzone. One stones two birds.

[@howardpage9915]

putin troll.

[@djpaulcfunkeddub3951]

Putin's thoughts exactly, save money on feeding & housing innocent & guilty prisoners, Prigozhin paid per Konvict, I mean ..."soldier" by Kremlin, ooops I mean..."private Kontractor", room in prison for new opposition, K.I.A, out the way, is win, win, Komrade, Da?!

[@Recon6delta]

I think the phrase is two birds with one stone but that works!

[@sviat9729]

They get rid of criminals but thousands of innocent Ukrainians have been raped, tortured, and beaten to death or executed by them. The way you twisted the saying makes it sound as if you are saying - one stone kills two birds. That's hardly ever happens -- unless it's a Russian stone.

[@cosminlupascu8846]

@@Recon6delta A simple exercise of imagination, a convict for rape who has been in prison for 5 years conquers a village with a pro-Russian population and meets a defenseless woman who is happy to have escaped the Ukrainians. there is no police, it's chaos, he has a gun in his hand...

[@riverrebel1]

Pretty brave for this guy to put his face out there like this, then give away his location and show him walking down the streets

[@chriswood9836]

He won't make it

[@palpaladin315]

Lol, you're onto it. 👍

[@sic308941]

Russia is not assassinating a man in a NATO country... cmon man USE YOUR BRAIN

[@garry3465]

​@@sic308941 No? You mean like Litvinenko's polonium poisoning and the Salisbury Novichok attack?

[@sic308941]

@@garry3465 its called plausible deniablilty

[@eugen-gelrod-filippov]

The former fighter from Wagner speaks with a Ukrainian accent. For English speakers, there is no difference, they will gobble up any information that they are fed.

[@andreylyga950]

А можете указать конкретно секунды где это очевидно? Я вот не заметил акцента нигде.

[@kevonhenderson6888]

I know this is fake news

[@kevonhenderson6888]

​@@andreylyga950you must be Ukrainian

[@Disorder2312]

3:42 While these are actually his words, this is not what he is saying on this footage. It was during this conversation, but in another part of it which wasn't shown in this video.

[@DarkVadimjke]

same thing with Prigozhin

[@ec6052]

I wonder if Wagner Group has Amazon Prime or just a regular account to order their uniforms? I have the same jacket as their leader and personally gave it a 4.5 star review when mine came for quality and value!

[@BiigTitties]

😂

[@Itried20takennames]

This seems like it must be a war crime in itself (sending convicted criminals to the front with a promise of freedom, if they live) but also a sign of Russia’s sheer desperation. Sending prisoners is only one step above “okay, it’s fine to send 14-year-olds and 60-plus year old raw recruits to the front” as a sign the invasion isn’t going well for Russia. Even dictators only do this when things are really, really bad, as it’s kind of embarrassing (so much for that “strong” military) and likely not too popular at home (so if they live and kill enough, they get set free to roam Russia, knowing they can trade military service for any crime they like?)

[@rootin222]

Who’s the anchor in the beginning

[@HistorysMysterys]

Wonder why so many people are in a rush to be dead.

[@LowejaDogs]

Because they have no choice. Unless they all surrender to the Ukrainians.

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

No atonement in their minds.

[@vripscript]

It's baffling

[@mikefischer7833]

odd they would use a german name

[@CurtisELeMay-wr5mi]

Especially since the Waffen SS basically rode into the Eastern Front/USSR during WW2 with The Ride of the Valkyries as their theme song 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 ... The level of Irony/STUPIDITY is incomprehensible...

[@firefly4907]

It's all a misleading propaganda.

[@renderuntocaesarwhatiscaes2300]

Clowns the Germans hated them called them below humans and these idiots name they’re group a German name you can’t make this stuff up.

[@user-hurasaddeen]

Russians have always been Nazis, especially this band that uses the name of their favorite Nazi artist, Wagner. In the photo, one of the founders of the PMC performs with tattoos of Nazi symbols.

[@DemPilafian]

From Wikipedia: *_"Wagner was promoted during the Nazi era as one of Adolf Hitler's favorite composers."_*

[@misfit7024]

Never seen a soldier use an SVDS

[@ohoiboi9818]

I wouldn't be surprised if the people who were arrested for protesting the war in Russia that got sent to jail for 12 years would magically end up on the front line as canon food as well.

[@christiandauz3742]

They can just shoot and stab Putin's lapdogs in the middle of night

[@zudemaster]

Imagine if the United States had a private for hire military full of mercenaries? They could call it Blackwater or something like that........

[@specialprojectsdevgroup]

Ahem.

[@virginiahunt357]

A few hundred thousand young men who. Crossed the border might be able to work or fight for their. Benefactors.

[@TheBucketSkill]

Call them what you want, but Western PMC's usually are filled with those guys who served in the military and realized they loved it and can do it for a living. They were built different. Wagner sounds like some Soviet penal battalion lol.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Blackwater was just doing security work. They never fought a war.

[@dudedog884]

​@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I get what you are trying to say but the way you worded your comment doesn't make sense. Their job duties are not to be on the offensive but considering they were working in a war zone and doing plenty of fighting, I'd say it's safe to say they fought in a war.

[@enstigatorofficial]

Putin's chef needs to make PUTIN a "special" meal

[@klezper]

Or the other way around...

[@erniebuchinski3614]

And serve it to him very near a window, about twenty floors up . . .

[@ericquarles9333]

@@klezper nah he needs 1 of American cruise missile with blades taking him as soon as he pops his head out of the bunker..spineless boy.

[@powell6376]

Ukraine steak with its wealth & resource sauce. Magnificent main dish. Next will Moldova’s land Pudding for dessert 😁

[@YouTubeExplore777]

Cyanide Steak coming up. 🤷

[@lukeo4405]

This guy will be looking over his shoulder for rest of his life, very brave man

[@alienlatino2945]

No he won't because he is fake, this guy never fought for Russia, he got paid by NATO to make fake videos.

[@vypa-bk1iy]

Not brave just looking for a way out of russia and a oppurtunist

[@hurdygurdyman1905]

​@@vypa-bk1iy There are tons of ways he could have done what you say without going public. He is indeed a very brave man.

[@vypa-bk1iy]

@@hurdygurdyman1905 nah he probably needs to do things like this in order to avoid deportation the more he speaks out against russia the more unlikely it will be that they can deport him. Seems like a propaganda puff piece anyways

[@hurdygurdyman1905]

@@vypa-bk1iy Hundreds of fhousands of Russian men are hanging out in scores of countries, waiting the war out. I live in one of them. Russians are everywhere and they're not short-term tourists. They're ashamed of what Russia is doing to Ukraine and don't want to be a part of it. He could have just been one of those. All of this is actually irrelevant to the fact that those who speak out are dealth with harshly, and those who speak out from within the bratsvo are killed. Everyone, especially Russians, knows this. He is a dead man.

[@coffeemcbee1]

Can you imagine redrawing the lines of Nato and saying, “We didn’t step past the line, we just moved it further and now you’re on our side.”

[@sondre3765]

NATO is used as a protection only. NATO never invades a country just because. If NATO operated like Russia, they would have invaded Belarus ages ago. Your logic doesnt work CoffeeMcBee1. You've been brainwashed by russian propaganda

[@shaneragans185]

5:06 Guy's weapon model didn't load in.

[@willchittom2690]

the only strategy that russia has ever had is to send waves of cannon fodder until somebody gets lucky

[@brahmburgers]

Russian military strategy: If 15 out of a one hundred charging men overtake an adversary's position, it's a victory. The 85 killed - died valiantly for Mother Russia. We will send a tri-color ribbon to each family. For a few meters of cold mud gained, it's worth it.

[@willchittom2690]

@@brahmburgers fr losing 1 million million just to have a burned down city is totally worth it

[@18_rabbit]

yeah lucky as in, like ww2, they prevail against Germany purely bcuz of american equipment and supplies. E.g. hundreds of early helicopters or what were called that then. Ru always takes and copies, and steals when need be. The original Muscovites (who became today's russians) were in fact the bag-men of the Monghol hordes/raiders of europe.

[@willchittom2690]

@@18_rabbit yep

[@HentsSauce]

They're sticking to their old Soviet Union roots when they were fighting the Nazis in WW2.

[@JoeMisseri]

The Wagner Group won't last by the end of 2023...

[@arenbastm.6881]

Keep dreaming 😂😂

[@zombielover317able]

Who thinks the grave-digging is fake? I think I do no one digs anybody and feels that kind of mounds on top of them that's ridiculous.

[@snowyraiderss9895]

A modern day Einsatzgruppen . I find this stuff fascinating

[@PARCE93]

In another interview, this so called defector says that he hadn’t seen any war crimes being committed, and now he says yes? Alright.

[@W35-Monty]

Umm, link please? Also, if it was early in his escape, he could have been afraid to speak against the Kremlin.

[@yellowboat825]

I would point out his lack of education, the guy looks no more than 25 and was a convict before being sent to frontlines as a piece of meat. It wouldn't exactly be a long stretch to say he may not have understood what a war crime was. I mean if I ask most people with master degrees to list me 3 war crimes I don't think even 50% could.

[@peterwallis4602]

Putin does not play by the rules, only the training he received in the KGB; torture, fear, intimidation, and weak points, clearly seen in the past 3 decades of his 'reign'. Then one day a nation stood up to him for truth, freedom & transparent government.A wake up call to us all.Although far from perfect, living in a Democracy is better than under Tyranny. Slava Ukraini from Aussie.

[@michar9242]

Slava real Slavic, peacufull people, not this evil empire called russia. They are programmed by 100 years, 5 gens

[@user-pw1vr5fs3b]

С Путиным всё гут, не надо врать! Не получиться развалить Россию оплаченными революциями из США, ни войнами! Россия очень сильная страна как и люди, в отличии от слабых, которые США унижают! Слава Богу Северная Корея научилась делать ядерные бомбы, теперь НАТО и США трусливо скулят, надеюсь и Ирак сделает, нет, то Россия поможет! США уже теряют свою власть, после победы России, все страны кого обидело США войдут в состав ОДКБ с Россией, Европа развалиться и начнётся хаус, да уж поздно будет, натворили он дел!

[@dlewisfl]

Russia is a democracy, genius. 🤣🤣

[@peterwallis4602]

@@dlewisfl lol

[@napalmholocaust9093]

They're used the same way you'd use rocks rolling down a hill; if any make a hole you charge-in with the good troops waiting in the wings.

[@stripemcr5722]

sending convicts to a meat grinder solves 2 problems with one move - less inmates to feed in the prisons + keeping pressure on Ukraine I would dare to say that the ratio of convicts who make it out in one piece after 6 months is 500:1

[@buddhakulung1910]

Wow too many numbers of Wagner group

[@sandman3536]

Putin is adding more misery and sorrow to this world making many of us become sad and disappointed . I'm not a Ukrainian even I'm saddened with this situation.

[@adamantobserver8655]

Cry some more.

[@dlewisfl]

If US never interefered Putin would never have gone in ... chew on that.

[@arcadyskoit]

Good way to clear out the prisons..

[@TheNavypenguin]

The Motherland has been through enough conflict and stupidity. Let the lands heal for the first time.

[@snowwhite2146]

Such cruelty on this scale, Russia, is full of evils.

[@SrTexasBlood]

Sure

[@grahammurphy1178]

Please Join me in reporting to KZbin Hindustan Times. This channel on KZbin is constantly spewing out Pro Russian anti West Propaganda and hatred. Almost all the commentators spew out Nuke the West and other incitement to violence and Hate speech. The channel is horribly one sided and misleading and doesn't deserve a platform on KZbin just as RT and Sputnik TV were similarly banned. Thanks!

[@acidburn3562]

only the top people are bad, the normal people like u and me are ok humans..

[@FoxHoundsPain]

The US Imperialists have a lot pf blppd on their hands too. You don't care about whats right. You only care about your side.

[@dev9421]

Touch some grass mate

[@jesusfingchrist4647]

You can always believe everything a traitor says.

[@VideoBelarus]

100%

[@RespectTheEnemy]

at the min 3:42 the translation is wrong..

[@leelunk8235]

WAR IS SO SCARY, I WOULD BE SO SCARED FIGHTING FOR SOMETHING I DON'T BELIEVE IN

[@Tokaga29]

I hope for this mans safety. There are most likely Russian loyalists here in the United States that go out to find men like him. I really hope hes in some kind of protective service.

[@Tizzer88]

Hes in Norway, not America

[@deeznuts6218]

TRUE ... PEDO JOE Biden showered with his daughter. #FuckUkraine .....Z.

[@TTFerdinand]

Apparently he already got in trouble in Norway for assaulting a police officer while intoxicated.

[@yuriimedvedev2895]

he is a war criminal and should bear responsibility and not rest in Europe

[@Tokaga29]

@@Tizzer88 yeah i found that out like a week after posting this

[@djambodenim3259]

Разве когда Уголовник готов искупить свою вину перед родиной и ему это предоставляют не считается демократическим действием или демократия по Амереканский считается лишь тогда когда тоже самое действие происходит лишь только в США и их союзников! У других все это же самое, считется варварство и диктатурой??🤣🤣

[@blckber4499]

Whoa! Once I verified this wasn't a "The Sun" report I realized there's actually something behind this report.

[@johndonaldson224]

AND now he actually wants to return to RUSSIA knowing he could be jailed or even killed for defecting...CRAZY!

[@jackcarpenters3759]

People always wish peace on earth. But leaders don't.

[@coolhead8686]

Evil is driven mainly by fear and greed. No one can safe yourself from the evil unless you and yourself exit it by yourself.

[@b3at2]

This is why the United States backs Ukraine. Dictators and their oligarch henchmen are EVIL... and their influence must be limited.

[@awwwsy]

Funny how their atrocities in Africa did not get them labeled a terrorist organization. But Ukraine gets the light shined on the issue even though they treated blacks as racist as anyone at the start of the war. Why should we now care if they are a terrorist organization or not? Will that remove them from Africa where the map clearly shows they stretch the furthest?

[@Enlightened0ne]

prigozhin looks like his knickname would be " the merchant of death" or something like that...

[@TofuBoi_]

Same old tactics used by Soviets in WWII. They gathered hundreds of civilians and convicts as "expandable" and sent them into a suicide charge without adequate rifles and ammunitions. In Ruzzian military, the purpose of those considered "expandable" are to wear down and waste the ammo of the opponents (at the expenses of their own lives of course).

[@user-zm3zi5ox5l]

Ты серьезно в это веришь? Это дешёвая пропаганда.

[@tinyfriends9103]

Are we in the 21st century? Or Re we in the middle ages? Its sad for humanity.. Who kills or who dies and die.. Its very sad. I as a human being from Sri Lanka wish peace! 🙏

[@pablosaintmarr3223]

Don't judge the rest of the world from where you live ! try visit a few of the world's shithole, many places are barely out of the stone age.

[@mackattack8627]

Good God This Woman Is A Beauty In Journalism ✊✌️

[@fussypeg8561]

Especially the lip job.

[@BrianLockett]

@@fussypeg8561 Lip job? She's all-natural.

[@michaelshelton9071]

It's a good thing ABC confirmed the country he is in,especially since he fears for his safety. SMDH! 🤦‍♂️

[@PMC_Wanker_Group]

That sledgehammer video is brutal, I've seen it.

[@icarusamerica3436]

Odd that someone that fears for his life goes on a globally broadcast forum showing his face, name and new location.

[@MCMole]

Was wondering same thing. This is fishy.

[@camilojimenez623]

He said he doesn't fear for his life. "Am I at risk? Yes. Am I afraid? No."

[@onemarine6666]

His story is fiction !

[@icarusamerica3436]

@@onemarine6666 Exactly

[@bsavage5128]

I was offered a position with a private military company (PMC) AKA a mercenary group. I was warned though... We work for the highest bidder, we would sometimes get paid to fight American forces and I would have to be okay with that... I was not okay with that 😟 It's wasn't Blackwater USA either but a PMC just as big that has managed to fly under public radar as far as awareness. People only found out about Blackwater when it was discovered that's who U.S. forces were engaging in the middle east...

[@TissueBox271]

damn dude. Blackwater doesn't play by the rules either. my spec war mentor worked for them when they became Academi or something. said it was chock-full of operators who didn't have an off-switch. but the fact you were asked to work for a group outside of the U.S just as big is a bit scary.

[@bsavage5128]

@@TissueBox271 I was introduced to it when I sold an operator a Nissan Armada that they were going to armor plate and arm with a rooftop turret. It would be headed to the middle east. The operator I interacted with was actually a really nice guy and pretty highly ranked and decorated. The PMC was Triple Canopy.

[@TissueBox271]

@B Savage they do some wild stuff to their vehicles lol. my apologies I meant "off switch" as when they have a tough time going back to normal life or refuse to and im glad he was a good dude, and I actually heard of triple canopy once from my chief on deployment.

[@spookyskelly5276]

Good on Norway for being so generous to take in this guy that probably committed war crimes.

[@papagump1744]

War is so senseless

[@randyhergenrether6914]

Prigozhin, you should stay away from windows over 1 story above the ground, you should have a Geiger counter check all of your food and drinks. You should also always wear body armor at all times. Why? Because your best friend is Puny Putin.

[@HegelsOwl]

He's wearing a chemical mask now. Ukrs got clever again.

[@kesibrestaima1586]

every prisoner that fights or has fought for wagner does get training and thats a fact although training isnt the same as real combat those who survive get that combat experience and they become battle hardend those who dont react quick get killed, do you think that only applies to wagner and russian forces? NO there is videos and pictures of ukrainian truck drivers saying that they drive newly trained soldiers to the front in the morning and in the night they have to go get their dead bodies to bring them back so basically both sides have large losses only time will tell what will happen.

[@benjamindaniel877]

Hello 👋🏻 my name is Benjamin and you...?

[@MrWhitmen1981]

Key word training hence why there is little western outrage. Sending un trained and ex convicts is just a dangerous and even silly thing to do.

[@kaparza9396]

The right words, the Ukrainian army is exhausted, all experienced soldiers have been killed long ago, now 80% of the soldiers are recruits with no experience and 2 out of 10 survive

[@dlewisfl]

@@kaparza9396 Not to mention they are kidnapping people off the streets in Ukraine to go join the army ... but hey, only Russia bad!

[@kesibrestaima1586]

@@kaparza9396 yes thats what i meant in short what kind of stormtrooper or special forces or a very good soldier can be created in a week thats inpossible

[@mulder801]

This is basically just a newer version of Dirlewanger's brigade

[@Cha-y412]

The guys a mercenary and a defector? Two of the lowest things a human can be 👎