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At least two mercenaries from the notorious Wagner Group were reportedly executed for refusing to take part in Yevgeny Prigozhin’s chaotic armed uprising last month.
The bodies of the two men were discovered “with gunshot wounds” along a roadside in Russia’s Voronezh region on July 6, according to the local branch of the Investigative Committee. According to the Baza Telegram channel, both men were found in military uniform and near a vehicle loaded with weapons, but they had no form of identification on them.
The circumstances behind their deaths became clear only when a 25-year-old suspect was arrested on Monday. He told investigators he was a member of Wagner and he had executed his two fellow fighters after they tried to back out of the mercenary group’s attempted insurrection, according to numerous reports.