Former Wagner Commanders Confess to Killing Ukrainian Civilians, Including Children

Two Russian men claiming to be former commanders of the Wagner Group have admitted to killing children and civilians during their time in Ukraine in video interviews with a human rights organization. The Wagner Group is a Russian private mercenary organization fighting in Ukraine, headed by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. The claims cannot be independently verified, but the men were pardoned by Russian presidential decrees last year. The US Treasury Department designated Wagner Group as a significant transnational criminal organization in January and imposed sanctions on a transnational network that supports it.