Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Another member of the Wagner mercenary group has been executed by his own side – a convict soldier named Viktor Anatolyevich Sevalnev, who served with the Luhansk People's Republic People's Militia and retreated from the front line after his unit took heavy casualties. ⬇️

2/ I've told Sevalnev's story in the thread linked below. He was recruited from a Russian prison to serve in the Luhansk region and was given command of a unit due to previous combat experience in Chechnya. However, half his unit was killed in battle.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1594610364368535554

3/ Sevalnev himself was injured and ended up in hospital. His son was killed in the same battle. While recovering from his wounds, Sevalnev was taken from his hospital bed some time in November and was told that he would be shot for allowing his unit to retreat.

4/ Despite the Russian human rights group Gulagu.net publicising his case, Sevalnev's wife has received a call from a Donetsk People's Republic officer who told her that he died on 25 November. He informed her about arrangements for returning the body via Rostov.

5/ It should be noted that Sevalnev's execution was wholly extrajudicial – there's no indication that Sevalnev had any kind of a trial. Although Russia has had a moratorium on the death penalty since 1996, the DNR and LNR have both imposed death sentences.

6/ Gulagu has called for "international institutions and the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to conduct an investigation into this extrajudicial execution and the murder of V.A. Sevalnev, convicted from IK-3 of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Kaluga Region."

7/ However, it's unlikely this will have any effect. Sevalnev's death sends a message that's useful for the Russians: mobilised convicts are evidently expected to fight either until death or victory, with no retreating allowed. /end

Source: t.me/NetGulagu/3966