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Andrey Medvedev, a fighter from the private Russian military company "Wagner" who escaped to Norway, revealed to CNN details of the company's kitchen.

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"The treatment of people is, to put it mildly, inhumane. Often fighters are sent to the front line without any training and without any instructions and they become easy victims," ​​the man added.

In Medvedev's words: Once several boys refused to go into battle.

A punitive company came and shot the deserters in front of the recruits.

The killed were buried in the trenches.  

"That the relatives of the dead will receive compensation in the amount of five million rubles (about 70,000 US dollars) is a complete lie. Many of my comrades fell in battle. They were declared missing," the 26-year-old man added.

The fugitive shared: I signed my contract with "Wagner" at the beginning of July.

After ten days I was sent to the area of ​​the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

On the sixth day of my stay there, I realized - I have to save myself.

"I went north. On foot, hitchhiking, sometimes free on the train. I had a fake journalist's card (officially, journalists are not subject to mobilization) so I wouldn't have problems with the police. When I reached the border with Norway, I put on a white camouflage coat. I managed to crossed the border under a hail of bullets," he added.

A Wagner mercenary reveals brutal truths about the private Russian military company

The fugitive added: I want to tell my story to the world because I think it will help Vladimir Putin

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Born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Prez and Yevgeny Prigozhin (Wagner's boss) to be tried and held accountable for war crimes.

"Sooner or later, people in my homeland will stop believing in the Kremlin. The people will rise up and overthrow Putin and his circle," Medvedev also said.

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