Ex-Wagner mercenary Andrey Medvedev: ‘I apologise to the Ukrainian people’
By France24
09 March 2023 |
12:40 pm
Andrey Medvedev, a deserter of Russia's Wagner Group, almost two months after he fled to Norway. The 26-year-old Russian ex-mercenary entered the country illegally on January 13 in a bid to seek asylum there. Speaking from Oslo, Medvedev explained that he "witnessed many things" while fighting with the Wagner Group in Ukraine.
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