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Jan 18 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Wagner has held a memorial ceremony for Tarimo Nemes Raymond, a Tanzanian student imprisoned in Russia who was killed fighting for Wagner at Bakhmut in October 2022. He is the second African known to have died for Wagner in the Ukraine war. ⬇️
2/ According to the 'Wagner Cargo 200' channel, Tarimo Nemes Raymond initially came to Russia in 2018 with the International Volunteer Forum. He's still listed as a volunteer on the dobru.ru website, with a registration date of 28 September 2018.
3/ Tanzanian sources say that Raymond was a senior member of Tanzania's second-largest political party, the Party for Democracy and Progress (Chadema), and stood unsuccessfully for election to Tanzania's parliament in 2020.
4/ He subsequently went back to Russia to study at the Russian Technological University MIREA, according to RIA FAN. He also seems to have worked for the Eastern European University Association, and is still listed on its website as its regional director for Tanzania.
5/ Russian court documents state that he was arrested in Moscow in January 2021 for drug possession. He was likely tried and sentenced some time after October 2021. Russia's harsh drug laws mean he probably received at least a 10 year prison sentence.
6/ According to RIA FAN, Raymond volunteered to join Wagner, became a stormtrooper and died under Ukrainian artillery fire in the fighting at Bakhmut on 24 October 2022. Wagner sources have described the use of drug addicts as disposable assault troops.
7/ Tanzania's government and partly free media appear to have so far ignored the story, likely because the government has good relations with Russia and has tended to abstain on UN resolutions condemning the Ukraine war.
8/ Raymond is the second African known to have died while fighting for Wagner. Another student, a Zambian named Nathan Nyirenda, was also recruited from prison and was killed in Ukraine last year while serving as a Wagner stormtrooper.
9/ It's quite likely that more Africans are serving with Wagner. The mercenary group has extensive interests in Africa and has issued propaganda depicting it as liberating Africans from the French. /end
Sources:
🔹 t.me/sotaproject/52…
🔹 t.me/wagner200gruz/…
🔹 riafan.ru/23796155-shtur…
🔹 mwanahalisionline.com/kada-wa-chadem…
🔹 bbc.com/swahili/live/h…

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1/ New details of the New Year's Day HIMARS strike on mobilised Russians in Makiivka in Ukraine have been reported by independent Russian Telegram channels, including that the men in the building were so drunk that only those who were relatively sober managed to escape. ⬇️ Image
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1/ The commentary on this video on the original Telegram post is quite revealing:

"The 'About the City of Yaroslavl' portal publishes a video message from servicemen, which was sent to them by the wives of the mobilized men.
2/ "The women ask the local authorities to remove their men from the combat zone. The mobilised men themselves, they said, are now being scattered among different units so that they cannot fight for their rights."
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Jan 18
1/ Recent reports have suggested that the Wagner Group has suffered huge casualties among the convicts it has mobilised from penal colonies across Russia. One small illustration of this, according to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel:
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