The two men, who were prisoners before the war, made the admission in video interviews with a French organisation that reports on corruption and torture in Russia.
Two men, who claim to be former commanders in the Russian paramilitary mercenary group Wagner, have told an exiled human rights group they killed children and civilians in eastern Ukraine.
The confessions were made in video interviews which have been posted online by the organisation Gulagu.net, which is based in France and reports on corruption and torture inThe former convicts - Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savich - were recruited as prisoners and have now been pardoned by presidential decree.The interviews where they describe their actions run at an hour long and were documented over the period of a week.
The men say the atrocities that they took part in happened in Soledar and Bakhmut in the Donetsk region where the fighting has been particularly savage.
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