Vladimir Andonov, 44, a purported member of President Vladimir Putin's private army, the Wagner Group, was killed by a sniper near Kharkiv over the weekend.
After a major battle in 2015, Andonov allegedly took part in the execution of captured Ukrainian soldiers in the town of Logvinovo, according to the “Peacemaker” database. In an interview following his return from the war in 2017, Andonov said he decided to fight in the Donbas as a volunteer because his grandfather had fought there during World War II. Andonov earned the nickname “The Executioner” for killing prisoners of war in 2015 in the hotly contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian database “Peacemaker,” which catalogues Russia’s alleged war crimes.
Vladimir Andonov, 44, was shot dead by a sniper while carrying out a reconnaissance mission to the north of Kharkiv on June 5, the head of Russia's Buryatia ...
In 2017, Wagner employees tortured a deserter from the Syrian army. It is also thought to be deployed in South America, Africa and the Middle East. In 2018, three Russian journalists reporting on Wagner's activities in CAR were ambushed and shot dead. In 2018, three Russian journalists reporting on Wagner's activities in CAR were ambushed and shot dead. 'They can appear from the shadows, do very violent things and then disappear again, without it being obvious who was responsible. Initially, it was made up of only a few hundred Russian army veterans. Rapes, murders and war crimes dominate the shadowy history of the Wagner Group which is fighting for the Kremlin in Ukraine Thousands of mercenaries - often drawn from the ranks of the regular army - are thought to be deployed to warzones in South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Buthe dropped out of school before completing his studies and got a job in trade, before answering a call for volunteers to go to Ukraine and join the fighting in 2014. The soldier - born in 1978 in the Trans-Baikal Territory in Russia's far east - had served in the regular Russian military from 1997 until 2005, when he moved to the city of Ulan-Ude and began studying at a teaching college. Andonov had bragged about the mission to Russian media, including how his unit had been instructed to 'destroy all the forces of the enemy,' and that 'there were no survivors' of the attack. A Russian mercenary who gained notoriety for butchering prisoners of war and civilians in the Donbas has been killed fighting in Ukraine.
Vladimir Andonov had played a crucial part role in the mass shooting of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
He was part of the Wagner group, an organisation of relentless mercenaries, as per Sky News report. The 44-year-old had volunteered to take part in the mass shooting, the publication further said. Vladimir Andonov died at night during reconnaissance of the area, along with his comrade, said a report in Newsweek.
A Russian mercenary—who has been accused of a role in the killing of prisoners of war and civilians—has become the latest top military figure from Vladimir ...
He credited his faith for allowing him to avoid injury while fighting in the Donbas region's Sea of Azov. It comes as another blow to Russia's Armed Forces, which have suffered high losses of senior commanders. In a 2017 interview, he told Gazyeta Nomer Adeen he had "ideological motives" for going to the Donbas region because his grandfather had fought in Ukraine in World War II against the forces of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian nationalist implicated in collaboration with Nazi Germany.
44-year-old Vladimir Andonov had become notorious during Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine for his part in carrying out massacres against prisoners of war and ...
Andonov is the latest in a long line of high-profile figures in the Russian military to be killed in the invasion of Ukraine. Once again deployed to Ukrainian soil as part of Vladimir Putin's current invasion of Ukraine, Andonov was killed as part of a counter-attack near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Sunday, Russian publication Moskovsky Komsomolets reports. Previously a regular member of the Russian military between 1997 and 2005, he volunteered to join Vladimir Putin's first invasion and was drafted into a special forces company which participated in fighting in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
Vladimir Andonov, 44, who earned the nickname 'the Executioner' has allegedly been killed by a Ukrainian sniper.
Andonov is believed to have played a pivotal role in the mass shooting of Ukrainian prisoners of war as well as the massacre of civilians in the Donbas. The Wagner Group is a private military company, that has been designated a proxy force of the Russian military by the US government. Vladimir Andonov, 44, from the Buryatia region of eastern Russia was a member of the infamous Wagner Group and is believed to have been killed in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
Kiev, Jun 7 (IANS): A Russian mercenary, who gained notoriety for butchering prisoners of war and civilians in the Donbas, has been killed while fighting in ...
Ukraine accused him of personally participating in the massacre of prisoners of war in the town of Logvinovo in the aftermath of the battle, and of killing civilians elsewhere in Donbas. At the time, he appeared in a video filmed in the region which became one of the first pieces of evidence that volunteers from the Buryatia were in Ukraine. Andonov was known to Russians as 'Vakha' or 'The volunteer from Buryatia' after the region he was from, but to Ukrainians he was known as 'the executioner' for the massacres he helped carry out during Russia's first invasion of the country in 2014.
A lethal mercenary for Vladimir Putin known as The Executioner was reported killed by a Ukrainian sniper in Kharkiv last week.
"Peacemaker," Ukraine's database cataloging Russian war crimes, alleged Andonov killed prisoners of war in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the Post reported. "He was killed overnight during a reconnaissance of the area, along with a comrade, presumably at the hands of a sniper," according to a Telegram post Sunday. Vladimir Andonov, 44, believed to be a member of Putin's Wagner Group, a private army group, was alleged to have slaughtered prisoners of war and civilians, the New York Post reported.
Kiev, June 7 (IANS) A Russian mercenary, who gained notoriety for butchering prisoners of war and civilians in the Donbas, has been killed while fighting in ...
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