SBU UNVEILED NEW EVIDENCE OF PARTICIPATION THE "WAGNER" PMC MERCHENARIES IN CRIMES AGAINST UKRAINE

In 2015, Dmitry Utkin - a former special forces officer of the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and the commander of the Wagner PMC - ordered to evacuate from Debaltseve district (the Donbass) Russian military equipment, destroyed by Ukraine's Defence Forces, inform the SBU.

"It is documented that at the height of the battles, the head of the Vagner PMC - a Russian citizen, a former spetsnaz officer of the Main Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Dmitry Utkin (personal number M-0209), ordered to his subordinate - a Russian citizen Sergey Kovalyov (personal number M-0274) - to evacuate urgently  modern designs of Russian military equipment -  armored KamAZ-43269 "Dozor" reconnaissance-subversive vehicles, which were destroyed by Ukrainian forces during battles near Debaltseve town. This type of technique is only in the Russian Federation Armed Forces service. The SBU employees found out that it was a platoon of technical support of the Wagner PMC, who was responcible for urgent removal of the Dozor systems; the unit was headed by Oleksiy Borodiy, a Russian Federation citizen, a former military officer of the 10th separate brigade of special purpose of the Russian Armed Forces, personal number M-1009. During active phase of battles for Debaltseve, he was wounded and evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation.

Materials of the relevant radio intercept were published by the SBU on May 19.

During active phase of  on February 21, 2015 by personnel units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and terrorists of Debaltsev


February 25, 2015, during active of phase of offensive to Debaltseve - which was conducted by common efforts of personnel departments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Donbass terrorists - employees of the Ukrainian intelligence service managed to intercept telephone conversations between the representatives of the RF secret services detachment, that in fact the Wagner PMC is. The information received is another proof of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine and indicates significant losses of Russian troops during the "hybrid war" against Ukraine.

According to the SBU, on June 19, 2014, Borody was sentenced by the judicial panel of criminal cases of the North Caucasus District Military Court under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia (fraud) to imprisonment for a term of 4 years with a fine of 200,000 rubles, but " instead of serving a sentence, he was sent by Russia's special services to the Donbass as a mercenary for the Wagner PMC.


Earlier, the head of the SBU notified that the members of the Wagner private military company - Dmitry Utkin in particular - were involved in shooting down of the Ukrainian aircraft IL-76 in the Donbass, the assault on Lugansk airport and Debaltseve.

"Utkin (also known as Wagner) will shurely share the dock of the international tribunal together with their curators, if only he will not be eliminated by Russian secret services by that day. The SBU has such information, since Utkin has left too many traces of Russian crimes in the Donbass." - the SBU head said in 2017.

Earlier Ukraine's security services published intercepts of telephone conversations between Dmytry Utkin and Igor Cornet - the "Interior Minister" of the LNR Group - as well as his conversations with the General of the Russian Armed Forces Yevgeny Nikiforov (calling "Tambov").

The Wagner private military company - that was named with a callsing of its founder - acting unofficially in Russia, but with actual support of the authorities. Official Moscow doesn't recognize the military company existence, but its mercenaries, and Utkin himself, receive state awards time after time. The PMC mercenaries had actively been participating in the Donbass in the first years of Rusia's hybrin invasion to Ukraine, and recently participated in the war in Syria and now, according to aviable information, the company is now reportedly  preparing to take part in actions in several countries of Africa, where Russia also has its own interests. The Wagner PMC was widely mentioned in the world's media few months ago, when the US air strike destroyed several dozens of the Russian PMC mercenaries in Hashsham - the province of Deir-ez-Zor - after Russian command at the request of Americans did not recognize own forces presence at the area.