Fighters “PMC Wagner” in Syria suspected in the torture of prisoners of war. This conclusion was made by a group of investigative Conflict Intelligence Team, analyzing a video in which a man was beaten with a sledgehammer to the song “I am a Russian special forces”.
The results of the analysis CIT writes on the service Telegra.ph. In the video a Russian-speaking armed men beat man with a hammer, calling him igilance*. Also see the head of another man: it is either cut off, or the man was buried up to his neck in the ground or poured concrete.
CIT believes that the video action takes place in the desert in Eastern Syria, where “vagnerovsky” operate in the fields of gas and phosphates in the area of Palmyra, which by agreement with the Syrian government intend to develop the Russian company.
The conclusion that it is not soldiers of regular units, CIT makes, based on the appearance of their equipment: they wear mismatched clothing, different from the shape of the Russian Armed forces. In addition, their weapons (AK-74, RPK-74) is not new and for the most part does not have camouflage coloring, which is not typical for the Russian special operations Forces.
One of the fighters is visible the patch with the quote in Russian, “I’ll just make you very, very painful” – a quote from the movie “suicide Squad”.
Background video in the song “I am a Russian special forces”. The song is about the Chechen war, in particular there is a verse: “Burning village, running a Chechen mother // And do not wish my child to give, // I removed from the shoulders of heavy machine // Take the child and kill the mother.”
In Russia there is no law on private military companies. However, “volunteers” like the fighters of the “detachment of Wagner’s” appear in various war zones. According to some, they are in the fighting, heavy losses – the account goes on hundreds . Officially, the Russian leadership recognizes that in Syria there are only Russian instructors and military advisers who help the Syrians to master the technique, delivered from Russia, and to prepare it to fight the terrorists.
*”The Islamic state” – ISIS, ISIL is not a terrorist organization