The family confirms: – Mercenary executed:

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– The whole family was in tears when we saw the video… He was killed like an animal, says Ilya Nuzhin to the Russian human rights group Gulagu.net, according to The Guardian.

He is the son of the man to be executed in the video, and says the family only learned of his father’s death when they saw the video, which left them “appalled”.

Russian mercenary executed with a sledgehammer

Struck with a sledgehammer

The video, which Dagbladet mentioned on Monday, and which was published on the messaging service Telegram, shows a man who identifies himself as Yevgenij Nuzhin.

With his head taped to a brick wall, he is hit with a sledgehammer to the head and neck, before collapsing and receiving another blow.

The son confirms to The Guardian that it is the father, 55-year-old Yevgenij Nuzhin, who is seen executed, but does not want to comment further for “security reasons”.

TIGHT TIES: Oligarch and Putin friend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is the leader of the mercenary group Wagner. He said on Sunday that Nuzhin was a “traitor” who had gone over to Ukraine’s side. Photo: Alexey Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP / NTB
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– Traitor

Russian oligarch, Putin friend, and founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Sunday that the video showed Nuzhin’s execution.

He referred to the former mercenary as “a traitor” who had switched sides to “fight the Russians”, wrote Reuters.

Must have been beaten in custody

It has not been officially confirmed who is behind the video that will show Nuzjin’s execution, but the video has been published, among other things, on a Telegram account linked to the Wagner group under the title “The hammer of revenge”.

– Nuzhin betrayed his people, his comrades, and deliberately let us down. Nuzjin was a traitor, the Wagner leader said in a statement via his spokeswoman on Sunday.

WAGNER GROUP: The Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man behind the “Wagner Group”, recruits Russian prisoners for the war in Ukraine. Video: Telegram / Wagner Group. Reporter: Vegard Krüger.
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Punished for murder

According to The Guardian, 55-year-old Nuzhin was serving a 24-year prison sentence for a murder committed in 1999, when he was released in July and recruited by Wagner to fight in Ukraine. Here he is said to have been captured by Ukrainian forces in September.

Nuzjin gave several interviews during his time in the war-torn country, saying that he had joined the mercenary group to escape prison. The plan was to surrender to Ukraine.

In several interviews, Nuzhin directed criticism at Russian leadership and expressed a desire to join the Ukrainian forces to fight against Russia, writes The Guardian.

The T-shirt amazes

– Ukraine had a responsibility

How Nuzhin ended up back in Russia after being captured by Ukrainian forces is not known. Unconfirmed reports claim that he should have been part of a recent prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, which has caused concern among human rights groups, writes The Guardian.

– Ukraine had a responsibility towards Nuzhin, and he should not have been exchanged given the dangers he faced in Russia, says Vladimir Osechkin, head of the human rights group Gulagu.net, to The Guardian.

The group has a particular focus on alleged abuse of the Russian prison system.

RECRUITING PRISONERS: The oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin gave a recruitment speech for the “Wagner Group” in a Russian prison on Wednesday 14 September. Video: Twitter
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Osechkin further says that everything indicates that the Wagner group is behind the execution, and that he wants to send a demand that the murder be investigated by the Russian authorities.

– Wagner could not have had the opportunity to commit this medieval execution without the approval of the Russian security authorities.

Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin only confirmed in September this year that he is behind the notorious group. The oligarch, who has close links to the Kremlin, said at the time that he founded the private military company to send fighters to Donbas in 2014.

He also confirmed that the group’s soldiers have been active in Africa and Latin America. Private military companies are basically banned in Russia, and the Kremlin and the political leadership deny having anything to do with the group, NTB has previously written.

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