Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group killed children in Bakhmut and Soledar.
This was confessed to Gulag.net, a Russian human rights organization, by two members of the militia, who entered Wagner through prison recruitment.
One of the two,
Azamat Uldarov
, said he "shot a 5-year-old girl in the head".
“I carried out the order with this hand, I killed the children, including five-year-olds,” the militant said.
Together with him , Alexei Savichev
also confessed
.
Azamat Uldarov and Alexei Savichev confessed to the founder of Gulagu.net, Vladimir Osechkin, the details of the execution of more than 20 Ukrainian children and teenagers, the explosion of a pit with more than 50 wounded prisoners and the "cleaning" of residential buildings through killing everyone, including children.
Moscow: 'Wagner company actions to conquer Bakhmut'
According to the two members of the Wagner Group, the order to "clean up" Bakhmut without sparing anyone would have come from the head Yevgeny Prigozhin.
It was even worse in Soledar.
Savichev explained that there was an order according to which “
everyone over 15 years old was to be shot at once, without a word. 20-24 people were killed, of whom 10 were 15 years old
.
When asked about civilians killed in Ukraine in February 2023, Savichev replied that 15-year-old Ukrainians "can hardly be called civilians" and also said that Wagner militants would face death threats if they communicated with journalists.
Prigozhin denies the militia Wagner: 'No one shoots at children'
- "Regarding the shootings of children, of course no one ever shoots at civilians or children, nobody needs them. We went there to save them from the regime they were in".
The head of the Yevgeny Prigozhin group wrote on Telegram, commenting on the words of the two militiamen who said they killed children in Ukraine following his orders.
Prigozhin also specified that he doesn't have "the technical ability to see the video in its entirety right now," but that "we will definitely review it in detail and give a full assessment."