A video posted on Gray Zone, the semi-official Telegram channel of the Wagner mercenary group, appears to show the murder - with a club - of Dmitry Yakushchenko, an ex-con who had joined the Wagner before surrendering to Ukraine on battlefield.
This was reported by the Russian-language online newspaper Meduza based in Latvia. The video comes just three months after the publication of another similar video, which showed the murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin, another former Wagner fighter killed by a club .
In the video, 44-year-old Yakushchenko is shown sitting: the man says he was "on the streets of Dnipro, where I was hit on the head and lost consciousness. When I recovered, I was in this room, where they told me I would be been processed".
Then he is repeatedly hit on the head with a club, even though the footage of the execution and murder is blurred. Meduza reports that according to David Frenkel, a reporter for MediaZona, the footage may be fake.