The Swedish edition told about the refusal of Wagner PMC to provide the families of the deceased soldiers with documents of death

PMC Wagner did not issue death documents to the families of soldiers killed in Syria. About it writes Swedish edition of Dagens Nyheter. The newspaper found the mothers of the deceased, they said that they were shown the graves of their sons, but they were not provided with documents, and they were officially registered as alive.

The publication found in a cemetery in Rostov-on-Don the graves of four soldiers of a private military company who died on the same day.

One of the mothers, Natalya, told DN that in the spring of 2017, her son told her about a new job as a “peacekeeper in Syria,” but he had no military training. “He was just cannon fodder,” his mother said. She did not attend the funeral of her son, she was also just shown the grave.

Last week, the European Union imposed sanctions against Wagner PMCs due to killings, torture and inhuman treatment in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, CAR, Sudan and Mozambique.

The list includes four organizations and eight individuals associated with PMCs. The titles and names have not yet been disclosed.

In February of this year, several American senators – both Republicans and Democrats – called on toughen sanctions against “Putin’s chef” Yevgeny Prigozhin and related structures, including against PMC Wagner. The corresponding resolution was published on the website of Democratic Senator Chris Koons. In addition to Koons, the resolution was sponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Senators Zhanna Shahin and Dick Durbin.

In April 2020, the European Union introduced personal sanctions against Prigozhin, he was included in the sanctions list in connection with the activities of PMC Wagner in Libya, which is associated with Prigozhin. According to sources close to the Ministry of Defense, “Putin’s chef” is responsible for economic and financial issues in PMCs, using for this part of the income from government contracts to provide Moscow schools, hospitals and presidential administration with ready meals.
According to the monitoring mission of the UN Committee on sanctions against Libya, the Wagner PMC fighters are fighting on the side of the Libyan National Army, led by Marshal Khalifa Haftar. The Russian authorities deny responsibility for finding the mercenaries in Libya.

The Insider posted investigation v two parts, where he talked about how the Ukrainian special services, under the guise of hiring security guards at the Rosneft facility in Venezuela, were able to take out from Russia several dozen of the most wanted militants from Wagner PMCs involved in war crimes on the territory of Ukraine. The militants were supposed to board a Turkish Airlines plane to Minsk, which would have made an emergency landing in Kiev, but at the last moment the operation was unexpectedly “postponed” by the Ukrainian leadership, the militants got stuck in Minsk and were soon arrested by the local KGB.