The Wagner Group executes a deserter with a hammer to intimidate the “traitors” of Russia

Since the beginning of the conflict, Moscow has shown an extremely harsh character with those soldiers who abandoned their positions despite finding themselves, on multiple occasions, without the necessary materials to fight. Since the recruitment that took place a few months ago, the penalties for not showing up or surrendering to the enemy without fighting have gone up to ten years.

In Nuzhin’s case, He was one of the prisoners who agreed to commute his sentence for fighting at the front. According to some media, he turned himself in as soon as he arrived at his destination in the army. Once in kyiv hands, he tried to join the Ukrainian cause, though he was rebuffed. After a prisoner exchange in which he was handed back to Russia, Wagner arrested him.

The founder of the paramilitary body, the Russian Yevgey Prigozhin, labeled the prisoner a “traitor”, adding that “there are not only traitors who throw away their automatic weapons and go over to the enemy”, since, in his opinion: “Some traitors are locked up in offices, without thinking about their own people. Some of them use their own planes to fly to those countries that until now seem neutral to us. They fly away so as not to participate in today’s troubles. They are also traitors.”

Since 2014, mercenaries from the Wagner Group have been accused of assisting Russia in various military operations in places such as Syria either Ukraine, among others. Although there is no official figure regarding the number of soldiers they have, it is estimated that their garrisons can reach 8,000 recruits.

Last September, due to the lack of troops in Ukraine, several members of the paramilitary entity visited several Russian prisons offering freedom to those prisoners who fought for Russia. Nuzhin was serving a sentence for murder. Prigozhin himself was in charge of approaching penal institutions. The prisoners had to be over 22 years old and under 50, in addition, they could not have sexual contact with women, nor consume alcohol or other types of drugs.

Heavy fighting in Donetsk

Volodimir Zelenski took advantage of his presidential speech this Sunday to announce that its forces are fighting with significant intensity in the Donetsk region. In this sense, he has also pointed out that the attacks by Russia have not diminished in the area either. Before the winter cold sets in, Ukraine wants to advance into one of Moscow’s most heavily fortified areas.

In the liberated Kherson, the Ukrainian president also announced during his public speech that, at this time, about 400 war crimes are being investigated. “Investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes. Bodies of dead military and civilians have been found,” she said. Regarding the supply of electricity, water and basic food in the city, kyiv tries to stock up before the arrival of winter, although according to the citizens and the councilor of the enclave himself, the shortage persists in the city.

After withdrawing in the Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnieper, the Russian Army is now concentrating its efforts on creating a defensive line to stop a possible Ukrainian advance towards the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, reports efe.