Battered Russian army officer explains where rivalry with Wagner group comes from: ‘Kidnapped soldiers were treated like slaves’

A Russian lieutenant colonel who was captured and also appeared on camera battered? As a symbol of the mutual rivalry between the army and the Wagner mercenaries, that could count. However, now that Roman Venevitin has been released, he immediately puts the dots on the i. “Wagner kidnapped some of my soldiers and treated them as slaves. One of them even committed suicide after being beaten and raped. It is therefore logical that tensions have arisen between us.”

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