A former "Wagner" PMC mercenary illegally crossed the border with Finland and requested asylum

The mercenary posted photos and videos on social media confirming his participation in the war against Ukraine.

In an interview with Russian propagandists, he admitted to participating in the Bucha massacre and other war crimes.

In February 2025, he posted a video criticizing Russian authorities for mistreating soldiers and lying to their families.

The former mercenary is in temporary detention, with authorities investigating his war crime involvement.

by whosudady

9 comments

  1. For anyone wanting a more reliable source (couldn’t find any Finnish ones?) than a 15 day old account that doesn’t seem to belong to someone residing in Finland:

    https://united24media.com/latest-news/wagner-defector-seeks-asylum-in-finland-border-guards-say-he-snuck-in-through-the-woods-9841

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/war-and-conflicts/military/former-wagner-mercenary-seeking-asylum-detained-in-finland/ar-AA1It1ph

    https://kyivindependent.com/former-wagner-fighter-seeks-asylum-in-finland-after-fleeing-across-border-media-reports/

    Edit: Finnish sources in comment below

  2. And remember, he has only criticized russia for mistreating their own soldiers. He’s still a mercenary who clearly has no problem invading a sovereign nation and killing innocents.

  3. This is a perfect example of gaming the system and now this trash will get to stay here.

  4. Let’s see whether he’ll be handed over to Ukraine in silver platter and deter these pestilence showing up here, or be granted some protection just like Voislav Torden. That Torden khuntov is living in a Finnish prison which is exponentially better than whatever bumfuckgrad he emerged from. As far as I recall, his biatch wife shares the same views as her husband and kids are in Finland. Weren’t Finnish authorities planning to deport them back to ruzkie mir?

    Meanwhile, a significant, if not a lot, number of ruZZians in Finland believe he’s a traitor, or in other words they support Wagner. Screenshot attached: https://i.imgur.com/zJ38oR2.png

  5. In the new law, high suspicion on war crimes and even normal felonies will automatically exclude him for receiving an asylum.

    Even driving people to interrogations where afganistan government has tortured has been enough, so handing the person to taliban is ok now.

    So if he has said that to a reporter, he has hard done war crimes … good luck.

  7. Humans do whatever they want when they “can” and then become righteous revolutionaries when things turn sour for them. It’s just disgusting the state of the world.

  9. The platform’s terms of service and sub’s rules prohibit me from giving my honest opinion about the person and their future treatment.

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