Ukrainian soldier gives account of fighting against Russia's Wagner mercenaries | DW News

“We found their phones and it motivated us more to kill, because we saw on their phones what atrocities they were doing to our soldiers.” DW’s Max Zander spoke with Vlad, a Ukrainian soldier, who says he fought Wagner soldiers in Bakhmut. Vlad shared his experience fighting the mercenary fighters, including how they’re grouped by infectious diseases to avoid spreading illnesses to healthy soldiers.
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[@fontainerouge]

He has seen more than he ever should have. Wishing him the best & a good life.

[@zvonkobogdan9634]

l think not even NAFO b o ts beIieve in this popaganda..

[@Brandonhayhew]

I think this man’s gonna develop a PTSD in his later life

[@zvonkobogdan9634]

@@Brandonhayhew There wiII be no "later in Iife" for him 😅. Wagner wiII heIp it hehe

[@HorstEwald]

@@zvonkobogdan9634 you are boring

[@jahendrix1543]

⁠@@zvonkobogdan9634Russia is pathetic. “The 2nd strongest nation” is struggling to deal with a border dispute with a backwater 3rd world country lmao

[@michaelt2166]

This young man is only 22 , he should be studying at a university and not having to defend his country .......Slava Ukraini...Heroyam Slava !

[@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla]

cringe

[@user-nk2by6cg9b]

@@Dr.Pancho.Tortillacringing at your profile pic and your comment, slava ukraine

[@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla]

@@user-nk2by6cg9b are you racist?

[@whoisme678]

​@@Steve-tn5cr well, if he is, then I guarantee you, he's taken a good many Russians with him.

[@jordanc9282]

​@@Steve-tn5cr Hopefully you will be.

[@MrMatthiasSchneider]

This kid is 22 years old and he's as calm and collected and mature as someone twice his age.

[@soreeyez]

Like 2elensky the TV president! 😂

[@MrMatthiasSchneider]

@@soreeyez Zelensky the "TV president" has certainly spent the past year and a half humiliating Kleptovlad and his incompetent shambles of an "army" (remember when everyone thought Russia had the world's second strongest army? Yeah, those days are over).

[@Slum0vsky]

Looks like a model too... typical soldier, I'm sure.

[@bbustin1747]

Resolute ….

[@sergiyrospysdiyenko6224]

@@Slum0vsky you look like a bot though

[@deepfriedbrainforlunch]

I am stunned, I can't imagine what these people have to go through just because big 'brother' Ruzia want their land. Ruzia is a disgrace to humanity.

[@thalentekhuluse2829]

Same thing Iraq people went through and the entire African continent

[@itsJPhere]

@@thalentekhuluse2829 That's no excuse for violence, though.

[@dylanvogler2165]

​@DontCheckMyChannel_source :"trust me bro". Do you have any source to back up your claim Vatnik?

[@dylanvogler2165]

​@@thalentekhuluse2829nice whataboutism.

[@oleksii000]

@@thalentekhuluse2829 hey clown, answer my question, why do you spam this nonsense everywhere? Your comment makes no sense AT ALL.

[@joannebottcher9779]

Brave young man has seen such horror! Bless him.

[@thejohnson9204]

What an admirable young man. Good luck in your fight Sir, and always protect yourself. Live to fight.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

I can't blame the young man either. If you don't fight by the rules, you don't have to expect anything from the enemy. These images of cruelty will long linger in the minds of mankind.

[@BeardofBeesPool]

​@@davidnoelfranks1124Why did Russia agree to release Azov in a prisoner swap back to Ukraine?😂

[@_Twink]

​@@davidnoelfranks1124funny how U.N. OHCHR observers and the red cross blame russia for all the crimes russia blames Ukraine for.

[@hymns4ever197]

I read a story in WW2 Magazine about US marines in the South Pacific. At night during an engagement they heard the screams of their comrades being tortured. The next day they found the tortured and mutilated bodies. One of the men was quoted as saying "After that we stopped taking prisoners.". Can anyone blame them?

[@sergeybebenin]

​@@davidnoelfranks1124really really old, bro. Go get a new ruZZo propane user guide

[@georgekung2003utube]

sad for them. sent to front line to test the weakness of Russian defense line. while the senior officers in Ukraine can corrupt 90% of the aid from european countries

[@user-rj7bj3wx1v]

We thanks to all democratic countries for helping Ukraine. 🇺🇦

[@briansmythe3000]

Isn't it Anti Democratic too throw the Geneva convention out the window. Based on a few videos that he cannot verify What ever

[@zvonkobogdan9634]

l think not even NAFO b o ts beIieve in this popaganda..

[@peterrauth118]

@@zvonkobogdan9634 Standard Russian (Orc) playbook: murder, rape, pillage. It's all part of the Russian military culture for decades - nay centuries. You c**** can't even behave yourself when you are on holiday in someone else's country!

[@sidahagarwal742]

😂😂😂😂😂 demicratic countries want peace talk not war

[@olegtereschenko6701]

@@sidahagarwal742 that is why the russia must be destroyed

[@truthbud]

The overwhelming amоunt of approving and cheering соmments by ordinary Russians in response to videos about the atrocities committed against civilians and prisoners of war in Ukraine were equally as shocking to Ukrainians as the war itself. We somehow became accustomed to the war, but the realization of who we have been living alongside all this time without even knowing it is still horrifying. Those barbarians referred to themselves as our brоthеrs. Just imagine what they would do to you, who they саІІ their enemies, if given the chance. Engaging in negotiations with Russia is lіkе negotiating with ЕbоІа vіrus. That's why any peace agreement lacking a clear vісtory for Ukraine is nothing but a temporary сеаsеfire.

[@myrtenuman621]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[@avoicecryingout1043]

They say opinions are like a-hole and everybody has one; and my opinion is that there is only one nation that can defeat the Russians and that's United States 🇺🇸 military

[@MrMr-ws3tv]

Well if I saw what NATO and America did to country's like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria I wouldn't want them on my border either. They're bloodthirsty tyrants hunting for oil.

[@dylanvogler2165]

​@DontCheckMyChannel_and yet you found the need to react on him. Which makes you dumber than a bot

[@ozzyphil74]

Really, at the start of the war, what side kept showing prisoners of war or reading letters on international media taken off dead soldiers... Yes the Russians invaded but did that justify showing their dead and wounded and humiliating them? So I guess they've responded in kind and it's now total war.

[@nibbling64]

When I was 22.. I was surfing the beaches in Australia.. this lad has certainly had a different experience

[@davidmurphy563]

He's probably not an Earl which would explain it.

[@nibbling64]

@@davidmurphy563 more likely he is a brave soldier

[@alexcarter8807]

When I was 22 I was working 10 hours a day, underfed, barely surviving but that's the norm for the USA. So I was already pretty grown up, but this guy takes the cake for sure. He's like the WWII generation.

[@themdmedicalscience5996]

​@@davidmurphy563Being someone else wouldn't explain it. Active terrorists forcing him to fight back would explain it.

[@eddierussel5911]

Yeah and someone in Iraq or Syria was not surfing......

[@ttk519]

This man is 4 years younger than me yet looks 10 years older

[@Serg_Bro]

Glory to heroes! ✌️✊🇺🇦

[@dylanvogler2165]

​@@DontCheckMyChannel_yeah you're a Moskal. A hypocrite too. Tell me orc, why is Wagner being called Wagner?😊

[@oleksii000]

Glory to heroes! 🇺🇦

[@Serg_Bro]

@@oleksii000 Так дружбе! ✊🇺🇦

[@brielle6728]

Ukrainians are heroes. The whole world knows it. Shame and disgrace to Russia 🤬

[@hervedecordey3361]

Slava Ukrayini Heroyam Slava (From France)

[@shaymoore1260]

Slava Ukraine from south Africa

[@rorytribbet6424]

❤ Someone tell your president to stop working with Putin please 😢 South Africans were oppressed so badly only a few decades ago, I don’t know how the president can team up with Putin the oppressor

[@unclescipio3136]

Seconded. The government doesn't speak for all of us.

[@LindiweKhumalo78]

@ShayMoore I am sure you are white south african and a white supremacist. I am sure more than 3/4 of your fellow south africans would disagree with your support the US's proxy war in Ukraine. I don't know why most white south africans are pro ukraine

[@awoweataro9932]

You ain't African

[@unclescipio3136]

@@awoweataro9932 my birth certificate disagrees.

[@bigzed7908]

I can't believe he's 22. Literally same age as me. I bet I played CS:GO with him and who knows, maybe even a soldier fighting for the Russians... Be safe brother!

[@ironknee6879]

Everything this Ukrainian soldier says tracks with what Wagner has done in Africa and Syria. There’s hundreds of first-hand accounts at this point, and no telling how much video evidence of these war criminals. A credible ex-Wagner even wrote a book (Moi Marat) on his experiences, which were similar. It’s gross that there are people who support this behavior. It’s inhumane.

[@laurie9557]

And DW says "we can't confirm." It's past time to stop giving ruzzians the benefit of the doubt.

[@zvonkobogdan9634]

l think not even NAFO b o ts beIieve in this popaganda

[@zvonkobogdan9634]

Nah. lt's just copy-paste of previous popaganda used by wstrn outIets towards Russia, and then reused again

[@evananderson1455]

@@zvonkobogdan9634 Remember when Russia was building up troops along the border but swore that they werent preparing to invade Ukraine...and then they invaded Ukraine? The West remembers. You can never trust an Orc, they're rabid, subhuman animals. Slava Ukaraine

[@eddierussel5911]

What part don't you understand? Everything can be bought with money....USA paid some young guys and they did a job killed someone, filmed themselves, blame goes on Russia

[@jlee4039]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 !!! ❤ from California

[@larryc1616]

Me too! 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🙌 From California with ❤

[@johnadam2885]

Yes, cheer for losing Ukraine, from a safe place.

[@jahendrix1543]

⁠@@johnadam2885 You’re definitely a teenage American who’s obsessed with the USSR and or communism. Most likely in band too.

[@MaBigFatEgo]

Terrorist USA, supporting super corrupt Ukraine, what a surprise!!!!

[@hinaynihorvath3926]

this is total madness

[@squeakycleannnn]

Russia as a country and nation is done. People say it's becoming almost like North Korea, but honestly, it's way worse, it just has not dawned upon them yet.

[@Maken_Some_Bacon]

😂

[@timonsolus]

If you think Russia is worse than North Korea, then you don’t know the first thing about North Korea.

[@squeakycleannnn]

@@timonsolus I'm not talking just about well being of their own. Is NK currently invading any country? Not only russians are headed the same direction but they are also committing genocide on foreign soil. They are worse than NK and they have the potential to become way more terrible for the world. So yeah, try to reflect on things globally before shutting down someone because of your own logical constraints.

[@leet3207]

They should treat people like america did at abu ghraib.......... oh wait a minute.

[@pcuimac]

😂 Completely delusional or payed CIA troll?

[@MyUniverseLemberg]

Glory to Ukraine!🔰

[@2394Joseph]

Respect. From Australia. Slava Ukraine.

[@mlys7184]

🤡

[@user-nk2by6cg9b]

@@mlys7184only clown is you

[@SI-YO-FUERA-DIPUTADO-235]

Russia is really a savage land.

[@user-mu3er7cu6o]

💯

[@shupingwang3392]

Glory and victory to Ukraine !

[@tayletubby5138]

​@We_Waz_Kangz🇷🇺 The edgy 12 year old genocide brigade appears again

[@b0w3rick43]

🇺🇦💙💛❤️

[@nickchkheidze9189]

Imagine you are a prisoner, have HIV, and thinking what could be worse and soon they send you to die in a meat grinder

[@tabithan2978]

This is not only a genocide of Ukrainians, but it is being used to cleanse RUSSIA of its criminals, its ethnic men and its rural poor men, boosting the White European stock from Moscow and St. Petersburg. Eugenics.

[@danielt.3152]

Slava Ukraini!!! America stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

[@jonelbondyingnuezca742]

Glory to Russia, Philippines is with Russia.

[@EscanV]

@@jonelbondyingnuezca742 LOLZ well that's like a Turd standing with a Poop

[@olegtereschenko6701]

@@jonelbondyingnuezca742 you are not from Pkillipines, you are russian troll

[@DiogoJ1]

@@jonelbondyingnuezca742 Then Philippines is wrong.

[@stefanfreestylez]

I hope you know thats a fascist slogan...considering the american flag in your profile pic your ancestors would be ashamed of you today.

[@Westernaut]

Nice recounting of these events.

[@miraborgesilva1919]

Theses beautiful men. Hope to God he helps you. 💔💔💔💔my heart is Brocken.

[@nordland2235]

Soldiers like that...when captured.....no prisoners taken.

[@bjkarana]

Just take any Wagner prisoners after interrogation to a wooded area behind friendly lines and hurry back. Don't forget the shovels!

[@BillBiggs1]

@@bjkaranayour watching too many horror movies.

[@jairoquinino7261]

​@@BillBiggs1 Wagners men are mercenaries not soldiers and as such do not have the rights of war POWs normal soldiers get. Ukraine is well within their rights to execute them

[@michaeljohnson3256]

They are the sort of quality interviews that people want to hear good work DW

[@definitelynotadam]

One can hope all those phones were sent for forensics analysis and secured for any potential court cases.

[@deecee1522]

217,000 russian occupiers killed so far 😱

[@leme5639]

not all of them are dead, many are wounded.

[@entelin]

@@leme5639 That number comes from the Ukrainian military and is intended to represent KIA, wounded exceed 600k.

[@nv1493]

God bless this young man and his brothers in arms.

[@marlenfras5490]

Good reporting. Go Ukraine.

[@David-wn8uy]

British intelligence released a report showing Russia lost 1 soldier for every 48cm of ground advance in Bakhmut. And now they're losing it.🤣

[@markuss4133]

This is not the video to post a smiley face. I get what you are trying to do here, but man.

[@3dprintmiami]

Keep dreaming 😂

[@ErukanuSenpai]

*38 cm :)

[@dylanvogler2165]

​@@3dprintmiamiso, proof him wrong. He stated a source, so state a source disproving him

[@vextally7566]

​@@dylanvogler2165That is an unreliable source to be fair. The same source that said Wagner are fighting with shovels and using human wave tactics. If that was true, how did they lose Backmut?

[@yllbardh]

The use of mercenaries by any country should tell that there's something shady happening there.

[@soreeyez]

There's mercenaries fighting on 🤕Ill-crane's side since last year.

[@dylanvogler2165]

​@@soreeyezcan you tell me which PMC fights for Ukraine?

[@soreeyez]

@@dylanvogler2165 mercenaries do not have to be from a PMC. 🤕Ill-crane appealed for volunteer fighters from its embassies around the world last year with citizenship as a possibility, post war*. There were individual volunteers who posted their stints on their social media.

[@dylanvogler2165]

@@soreeyez yeah here is the thing which shows you're a Moskal without knowledge about what you talk. The foreign volunteers are part of the Ukrainian army directly. They belong to regular forces. Meaning that according to the Geneva conventions (signed by Russia too) they are *NOT* mercenaries. Nationality has *NOTHING* to do with being a mercenary or not. A Pole in the foreign legion is *NOT* a mercenary according to the Geneva conventions. A Russian fighting for Wagner (or another PMC) *IS* a mercenary according to the Geneva conventions. Next time read up on things before saying stuff and don't just repeat others. Makes you look dumb Moskal.

[@dancingduckling1435]

​​@@soreeyezea, volunteers are not mercenaries. The prior is under direct authority of the UA military and the UA military is accountable for their actions. This is not the case for mercenaries. (Only now some PMCs in russia are being placed under direct army control, and Wagner notably has refused)

[@nikolayew]

I hope the videos from the phones are collected and kept as evidence so after the war the responsible will be punished.

[@MsPokepie]

Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 heaven and Earth bless all the brave soldiers in Ukraine 🙏🙏🙏

[@zvonkobogdan9634]

l think not even NAFO b o ts beIieve in this popaganda..

[@mlys7184]

🤡

[@user-nk2by6cg9b]

@@zvonkobogdan9634yawn 😅

[@elessar5848]

In my honest opinion, when capturing a Russian with video on his phone confirming he's involved with torture I'd say bye bye Geneva convention.

[@MarxAlex]

Then you go to jail buddy

[@guydreamr]

Understandable, but it's ultimately counterproductive to stoop to their level. For one thing, decent treatment of captured Russian POWs will incentivize more to surrender, boosting Ukraine's exchange fund. As far as the war criminals are concerned, put them on trial and let them have fun for their rest of their lives in a Ukrainian prison.

[@nextinstitute7824]

​@@guydreamrI must say that it crossed my mind too, but at one point we probably all become animals. Very sad. This Wagner group needs to be targeted as war criminals. Should have been. Years ago.

[@dylanvogler2165]

@@MarxAlex if the fighter was a Wagner soldier, nope. As they are not protected by the Geneva conventions.

[@DARDA360]

He said that the Wagnerites were segregated by their color-coded braceltes: red to red and white to white, i.e. HIV and hepatitis were in their own units. Quite a leprosy colony....

[@mavisstewart2317]

Only 22 years old such a brave young man brave country

[@larsrons7937]

I have heard others saying about the same when talking about the battles in Bakhmut, so when DW News say "they haven't verified his stories yet", I think he's saying it as it is (or was a month ago).

[@paladro]

should be open contracts on all wagner personnel, in perpetuity.

[@JosannaMonik]

What is the matter with those Russians; how can human beings be so horrific?

[@magpieeuc4846]

Because when you find someone's phone, is never locked and encrypted

[@john_doe_not_found]

Wagner is mostly recruited from Russia's prison population. Every murderer and serial rapist and criminally insane individual was given a ticket out of jail. Of course they would not treat humans with dignity.

[@nextinstitute7824]

If this is true then this is absolutely horrific 😱

[@laurie9557]

The evidence is on the ruzzian mercenaries phones, which have likely been handed over to the Prosecutor Generals office. As for the diseased prisoners ... it gives new meaning to the concept of biological warfare.

[@vijaym2823]

Yes it’s true and it is horrific ,that the media would lie to the public jus to support a WAR while Germany hits a recession !

[@nextinstitute7824]

@@zeljkokrsic1394 To be honest, you cannot know this either. What we do know, because they filmed it themselves, for some inexplicable reason, is that Prigozhin/the Wagner group has been recruiting in Russian prisons.

[@el3ndir97]

Wake up Theres manywebsites and officials recording russian actrocities Like group raping 12yr girl Hes father was stapped to death I bet american news dont tell all the horrors so ur weak minds wont get upset Russians are called orks and theres good reason for that Whit love from Finland

[@megclifton6692]

​@@nextinstitute7824 wtf does prison have to do with anything

[@ariellonay7466]

Slava Ukrani. Your cause is righteous! ❤

[@dylanvogler2165]

@@davidnoelfranks1124 so you must be really be against Wagner than too? Right? Or are you a hypocrite?

[@zvonkobogdan9634]

@@dylanvogler2165 Wagner are heroes. God bIess them

[@olegtereschenko6701]

@@zvonkobogdan9634 so, you russian slops eater, writting under the nickname "Zvonko Bogdan",

[@ragnarone5409]

Slava Ukraini! 💙💛 from Germany

[@FujikkoJP]

*Very brave Ukrainian soldier.*

[@casualsuede]

I hope they collect their evidence and send it to the Hague, history will keep record of these atrocities forever.

[@northernlights87928]

What Hague ever had to say about the atrocities of the Ukranazis they have commited not only against Russian soldiers but their own people ever since the WW2, the Maidan, the people burnt alive in Odessa, the kids of Donetsk and Luhansk to name a few? Come on, open your eyes, wake up, for God's Sake!

[@Rasytojas1980]

Lithuanian freedom fighters 1944-1953 always kept last grenade or last bullet to kill themselves because it was better than barbarian russian capture and torture

[@ronanrogers4127]

4 month old account 😂 SBU troll

[@ayoungethan]

​@@ronanrogers4127 you sound more like a troll than the OP

[@skipperson4077]

Viva Forest Brothers!! Lithuania is great country!

[@therealdaveseaman]

@@ronanrogers4127 Ukraine doesn't need trolls, they have a competent army. Your fascist leader on the other hand...

[@jollyroger7624]

Why the world has allowed the Wagner gang to exist for so long is a sad indictment of our apathy.

[@AminNajafi1]

Slava Ukraini from Iran🇺🇦❤

[@move2003ny]

freedom for Iran, brother. Hope you can get rid of your tyrants.

[@jaimegarcia8447]

@@SuckDeezNutz187 why? do you support the Iranian regime?

[@jaimegarcia8447]

@@SuckDeezNutz187 oh yes, you do, sorry. You are not a hypocrite then - you are just a hateful person. That's ok.

[@b0w3rick43]

​@@SuckDeezNutz187🥔🥔🧅

[@alexcarter8807]

Muscovia has to be completely and utterly defeated, and in its defeat carved up by the Allies, leaving only a small part, Muscovia, to be walled off and the criminals within kept isolated, primitive, and poor.

[@michaelmcginn7260]

Bravo soldier of Ukraine.

[@shuatmillet1652]

nice insight

[@myvictory8294]

I understand Ukrainian and I barely understood anything, he can hardly put 2 words together 😂

[@kaseyhicks860]

Slava Ukraini! Stay safe, Vlad. Hope this young man has a long happy life in a free Ukraine.

[@sweus6512]

10-11 month to capture Bachmut with only 75k ppl thats a very logt time. I think Russia lost its moral and boost here and probably will lose the war.

[@ronanrogers4127]

Surely you realise by now that Bakhmut was a trap to kill and destroy as much as they could? That’s been widely reported.

[@somnia3423]

​@@ronanrogers4127 yup ukraine killed alot if orcs in bakhmut

[@Brandonhayhew]

In real war, these are real men and they have seen enough

[@bamfordsteele555]

God, all I kept thinking was this kid should be in college and not fighting a war right now. I noticed he seemed well-trained and professional. He seemed like a kid who would normally be easy going but you could tell he was pissed off about the treatment of Ukrainian soldiers by the Russians and that he and his boys were looking for some righteous payback. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦

[@myvictory8294]

Maybe you have no clue, but Ukrainians shelled ethnic Russians in Donbas for 8 long years, since 2014. More than 1000 people went missing ( meaning abducted, tortured, raped, killed). Hundreds of children dead. Also there were plenty of videos where Ukrainian soldiers torture and kill Russian POWs. So please don't talk about righteousness.

[@donaldj3286]

Praying for all Ukrainian soldier 🙏🇺🇦 to be safe at all time. Western need more ammo Tank and F-16 Asap to end this War.

[@rositasultana3958]

Can't blame them. Glory to the fallen heroes ❤

[@thefella131]

Mature,brave young man 👍👍

[@myvictory8294]

He's just a kid

[@nancymorin88]

So many young life destroys on both sides 😢

[@patrolmanpete]

Russia is reaping what they sow 💀 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@peterrauth118]

And people wonder why we refer to them as 'Orcs'

[@eddiem402]

A curse of revenge over and over again,..even when the war was over .forgive and to forget is just like a broken mirror..may the innocent will not be harm

[@revelationthe7sealsarecrac981]

Every war has soldiers on all sides committing abuses. This is the nature of the beast, when death is all around you.

[@rjkeenan8955]

To all Ukrainian servicemen......don't forget your humanity. Don't treat russians you capture poorly. Do not harm them, do not do anything that can give them a reason to talk poorly about you or any Ukrainian. Keep your honor clean are a few of the words in the Hymn of the United States Marine. You must keep your honor clean. The world will know if you have or have not.

[@EvacuationRoute101]

You are a good man, but it is beyond hard. Ruskis don’t keep anything humane.

[@martinsoublette95]

Well said. Don't make the same mistake that american troops when liberated Dachau.

[@karlvonbahnhof6594]

It's their decision, they have right for revenge, but I think they treat the captured soldiers well, I know some Ukrainians, they are good people , Sláva Ukrajině 🇺🇦 from Czech Republic 🇨🇿

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Good point. You fight by rules, not to keep the enemy, comfortable. You fight by rules to save your dignity.

[@sergeybebenin]

🤦‍♂️ Why don't you do the same with terrorists then?

[@ronjohnson5070]

Did you have the password to their phone or did you torture it out of them?

[@dylanvogler2165]

Considering they are not protected by the Geneva conventions if they fight for Wagner, what do you think?

[@ricky_pigeon]

probably only takes promising them a sip of vodka or a cigarette.

[@brada2354]

Where have I heard people talking about atrocities with a smile before? I may have to look back 80 years, I am sure it is real in his mind.

[@9UaYXxB]

Get F-ed, Brad A. You have nothing to teach Ukrainians. You have nothing to teach us.

[@kasurottv5603]

Stay safe

[@mamdouh-Tawadros]

Bring Peace not War!

[@entelin]

Peace happens the moment Russia leaves Ukraine.

[@sujac664]

Judging by the sheer number of bots and trolls commenting below trying to discredit this brave young man and his factual account of what he experienced, he's 100+% legitimate, and his account is probably highly abbreviated and conservative compared to the full extent of his experience. Best endorsement ever! Thanks trolls&bots, you've been super helpful👊🏼 ... though I doubt theKremlinKillers will appreciate your validating the truth about the behaviour of their hired assassins. Stay safe🙏🏼 Slava Ukraini🇺🇦 Heroyam Slava🫡

[@rossflores131]

Long live Ukrainians! Slava Ukraine! Continue to be strong and brave. GOD be your shield. You are the hope of victory for freedom against Putin and his evil rule!

[@_Twink]

The amount of war crimes Wagner commits is staggering. They are up there with Japan ww2.

[@aaditmn6231]

Slava Ukraine ❤

[@totoypogi4306]

Now they are turning against him for revenge

[@georgefox4172]

Влад, вернись домой живым и здоровым. И с победой. Удачи тебе и слава Украине! PS Я россиянин. Надеюсь, когда-нибудь вы сможете нас простить за то, что мы допустили всё это.

[@_Twink]

It's like being German in 1940, nobody alive now will hear russian the same again.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

@georgefox4172 Я всегда радуюсь, когда читаю о порядочных людях, откуда бы они ни родом.

[@dirkcleppe3617]

Such atrocities are beyond forgiving,only revenge in the harshest way possible, inhumanity has to be destroyed before it destroys you.

[@tabithan2978]

Collective punishment was a Stalin method, so it would be sweet if today’s Putin loving people got a taste of it.

[@Cryosxify]

hey Russians, you ready for your wagner civil war 😂

[@youpiyoupadla3791]

Shovel ptsd

[@solodad7999]

And the world MUST SEE what Russians have done in Ukraine!!!

[@andyb7925]

❤🇺🇦

[@twistedyogert]

I wouldn't be surprised if any surrendering Wagner personal aren't given quarter by Ukraine. And why should they be? Mercenaries are not protected by the laws of war.

[@dylanvogler2165]

That is correct

[@vikinnorway6725]

Wagner is nothing different than isis

[@entelin]

Because it's always better for an enemy to surrender, and you don't get that if you just kill everyone. Plus a disparity of treatment is an asset politically, and in the information war. It doesn't mater what they deserve, it matters what benefits you the most.

[@elizabethwinsor5140]

There are no rules in war - survive ....or die ....

[@mavisstewart2317]

He said they don’t send the professional there an a lot of soldiers wer suffering sicknesses wich they shouldn’t b there right from the biggining

[@diazvirdani1059]

*Russia🇷🇺 still occupied oblast Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea.* Russia must end occupation & keep Peace!

[@thalentekhuluse2829]

Tell US to leave Iraq first

[@MrMr-ws3tv]

America and it's NATO Allie's have 800 bases around the world while Russia has 14 in Europe .Who's occupying who exactly?

[@dylanvogler2165]

​@@MrMr-ws3tvall of which are voluntary bases. How many territories has the US annexed since 1945? And Russia ? Exactly.

[@dylanvogler2165]

​​​@@thalentekhuluse2829theUS left Iraq, but was asked back in. I don't support the US actions in the middle east but whataboutism isn't going to help you.

[@vikinnorway6725]

People supporting the terror of Russia is the reason why we cannot have peace. Pure evil terrorist. Russia is canser.

[@conceptalfa]

👍👍👍

[@gerryperez1084]

This 22 year old needs to be debriefed.. and honorary dismissed in service... this man wont live happy life if not treated... he is in the primary stage of war stress... the earlier that it is adressed the earlier it wont progressed to mental illness...

[@mikebee888]

There is a lot of talk about Ukaraina's counterattack. But what is at least as important to resolve is Russia's reckless firing of missiles and drones from other countries' territory. It MUST be eliminated ASAP. Otherwise, Ukraine will not survive this war.

[@user-li5cr6wv5b]

I wonder if he really had been in Bakhmut. He appears to be alive😂

[@YohanRoth]

He is bot russian, so of course he is alive

[@kasu4]

I pray Putin suffers as much as the people who have been affected by his actions have.

[@davidfraser9365]

I read your comment. Pretty good one. I saw most of them in as much detail as I could (1) Soo much B&W footage on screen: little girl running too camera + napalm then SV officer shooting NV dude in the head + much blood. Man from Detroit giving me large in my ears at work 🙄 (2) Iraq, Saddam involved dictator threatening West’s supply of oil - BINGO GET HIM (3) IDK tbh ~ war on terror. Terrorist stuff, but not in UK. “Ok George, you’ve done a great sales pitch but we respectively suggest George, listening George, we have loads of Solvents here. Capisce ?

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

@@davidnoelfranks1124 👈 Makes short list of worlds worse dictators, tyrants, and ethnic cleansers as if that's somehow a defense of Putin's war

[@Ricohere]

really? can you also pray for Blair Bush Obama to suffer too?

[@kasu4]

@@davidnoelfranks1124 sure, them too. Anyone that brakes the law. Why are you so pressed in defending Putin my dude?

[@dvsfreek]

only 1 flaw in his plan, they got slaughtered and had to run away from the city .

[@user-mh6pz8rq9d]

У парня глаза птсрщика уже... ужас, какими вернутся люди с войны

[@hafidbenzn]

Too much lies from this soldier

[@paulgibbon5991]

Low-effort botski.

[@urkiddingme6254]

@@paulgibbon5991 You need money but you can't construct a sentence in English, so "too much lies from this soldier" is the result.

[@arizonabusinessleague918]

It's not a "what if" you Russian troll. You can watch literally thousands of archived videos online across several different platforms of Russians savouring torturing and killing men, women, children, elderly and soldiers. You people aren't even humans.

[@ayoungethan]

​@@urkiddingme6254 to be fair, it might have taken that botski immense effort to make that comment!

[@palar4195]

so sweet, three ukies bots are kissing eachother buts. what's I call a teamwork.

[@arthurchonyera7031]

Atrocities??? We saw a graveyard of destroyed NATO supplied equipment! Do tanks have feelings?

[@TheAbortionWhoLived]

You say one tank and 4 apcs and call it a graveyard? Take a peek at one of the Russian river crossings or convoy and tell me what you would call it. The Donbas genocide 2.0?

[@paulgibbon5991]

The problem with harping over one video of wrecks is that it makes it very obvious you haven't posted anything else for a while. Guess the Russian army doesn't have any successes since then?

[@ayoungethan]

​@@davidnoelfranks1124 according to Russian Ministry of Deception it is hundreds of Leopard tanks

[@Sajma969]

So beautiful Ukrainian language, sound like song.

[@jplater9191]

I sincerely hope they repel these barbaric war criminals from Ukraine soon. We need to do everything and more to help Ukrainians!

[@thechickenhasarisen]

Can you believe no atrocities were committed by the Ukrainian side, even the Right Sector were angels to the other side... said no one, EVER!!!

[@tech477]

Are you scared, Chicken? Don't be.

[@paulgibbon5991]

A crook believes everyone a thief, and a Russian believes everyone a war criminal.

[@thechickenhasarisen]

@@tech477 🤣🤣🤣 of what?

[@arizonabusinessleague918]

You can watch literally thousands of archived videos online across several different platforms of Russians savouring torturing and killing men, women, children, elderly and soldiers. You people aren't even humans.

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

Both Russian prisoners or war, and Russian civilians, should thank god Ukrainians don't fight like Russians.

[@soreeyez]

No evidence, DW? 😒

[@bananerz3167]

What do you mean? Wagner advertised their execution methods publically and are proud of it. Also their founder was a neo nazi

[@FrauWehner]

Google is your friend, dude.

[@ahadabdul6263]

Please fight for real instead of giving interviews and making TikTok….