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A grisly video that surfaced on Monday purported to show a Russian mercenary who had fled while engaged in combat in Ukraine being killed with a sledgehammer. However, the gang that claimed responsibility for the apparent execution later claimed the film was manufactured and only for “fun.”
In the horrific video, with the caption “Video from the court for treason,” a guy identifying himself as Dmitry Yakushchenko is shown having his head taped to a block on a brick wall.
The victim explains he was picked up in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, and a man in camouflage stands behind him brandishing a sledgehammer.
The man who introduced himself as Yakushchenko said, “I was intending on finding some loophole, just, as they say, to escape away,” adding that it was “not his battle.”
The video suddenly becomes hazy as the executioner raises the sledgehammer and appears to swing it into the victim’s head.
The caption reads, “The court session is pronounced closed,” as the sufferer is then seen stumbling backward.
Grey Zone, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner mercenary group, a Russian paramilitary organisation that bills itself as Russia’s most deadly fighting force, posted the footage to social media.
The video has not been verified, but the vicious gang of criminals adopted the sledgehammer as its emblem after purportedly using it to murder a member who betrayed them the previous year.
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Wagner’s creator Yevgeny Prigozhin said the footage was just “having fun” a few hours after the horrifying clip was posted online.
When reporter Kseniya Sobchak of Russian news organization Ostorozhno Media asked him for confirmation, he said, “Ksenia, don’t take everything too tragically.”
“The kids are having a good time. You believed that the Yakushchenko movie was a single-episode drama. We may share the upcoming series with you if you’d like,” he continued.
Then, Prigozhin published a video of “Yakushchenko” standing in front of an empty concrete wall, declaring that he had been “forgiven” since he had provided crucial intelligence that had saved the lives of other fighters.
He continues, “For that reason, I’ve been absolved, for which I’m incredibly appreciative,” over the caption, “Dmitry Yakushchenko is a decent man.”
Yakushchenko’s current location are unknown, and there is no proof that he is still alive, according to the BBC. The second video has also not been validated, nor has the order in which the recordings were made.
Yakushchenko may be alive and have been given to Russian authorities during a prisoner swap, according to independent Russian publication Agentstvo.
Nevertheless, the footage that appeared to document the reported execution was the second widely circulated video of a Wagner group member’s alleged sledgehammer killing in recent months.
Yevgenny Nuzhin, a Russian mercenary, was allegedly also taped to a wall before being slain by a sledgehammer in a vicious film uploaded in November under the title “The hammer of revenge” on Telegram.
In recruitment films that went viral last fall, the tycoon and commander of the Wagner organization Prigozhin was also shown threatening to execute Russian inmates for betraying the cause.
