A Wagner group mercenary is being detained during the special operation. Photo: SBU
Ukraine’s security services detain mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner group
The special forces eliminated two units of the Wagner group who tortured Ukrainians in Kharkiv region
Oct 11, 2022
Ukraine’s security services (SBU) have detained four mercenaries of the Wagner group, a notorious criminal organization allegedly patronized by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Some details of the special operation, which took place in Kharkiv region, were disclosed by the services on their official social media.
According to reports, the mercenaries were detained in a private house where they had equipped special rooms meant to torture captured Ukrainians.
A house (center) where the Wagner group mercenaries have been detained during the special operation. Photo: SBU
The mercenaries’ location was discovered by air intelligence which transmitted information to the relevant services. The place was surrounded and stormed, the SBU reported.
One Wagner member perished and four other were taken prisoners, including a commander of a group, during the operation.
The SBU established that the detainees were engaged in torturing Ukrainians. The commander is reportedly giving information about other locations were the captured Ukrainians are being kept and tortured.
Russia’s Wagner group is a shadowy military group of mercenaries which has been accused of criminal activities on the territory of Ukraine since 2014.
According to British military intelligence, about 1,000 Wagner mercenaries entered eastern Ukraine back then to help pro-Russian separatists in confrontation against Ukrainian forces.
The group’s actions in Ukraine, Syria and African countries have repeatedly been assessed as war crimes and human rights abuses.