Ex Wagner Group to Expose Everything {A High Ranking Seeking Asylum}

 

Andrei Medvedev says after fleeing the front lines, he hid in Russia for two months before escaping across a frozen river to Norway © Gulagu.net

 

He said he went underground in Russia for two months, then crossed the ice-clad Pasvik river, fleeing guards who fired gunshots and sent dogs to chase him, until he reached Norway.

Once there, Medvedev asked for help from a nearby Norwegian house, police said.

A Russian national who is reportedly a former high-ranking member of the Wagner Group is seeking asylum in Norway. 

The Wagner Group is a private military organization that has in the past been described as Vladimir Putin's "private army".

The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration has said that the man, named Andrei Medvedev, has applied to stay in the Scandinavian country. 

Mr. Medvedev's lawyer, Brynjul Risnes, also confirmed he was in Norway and seeking asylum.

He has been transferred to Oslo and placed in a center for people who violate Norwegian immigration law.

Last week, police in the north of the country said a person had entered illegally by crossing the 123-mile Norway-Russia border.

He is said to have visited a private home after crossing the border, asked the resident for help, and then waited to be taken in by border guards.

According to Gulagu, a Russian human rights and anti-torture organization, Medvedev is prepared to divulge everything he knows about the Wagner Group and its millionaire owner Yevgeny Prigozhin.