This is all horrifying — but the war seems to have become not only a way to make money from defense contracts. It is turning into a cynical business built on deliberately killed people, including their own — Russian servicemen, who are then written off, “zeroed out,” and whose deaths are turned into a source of profit.
“The executioner” gave testimony about the deliberate shootings of 63 fellow soldiers — in order to seize the money that “appears” after their deaths. And the most terrifying thing here is not even the number, but the cold, everyday logic: order — execution — money. He claims it was done on command. He says he “doesn’t care”: his health is already broken, he has no kidney, no knee joint, he gives up half his salary. As long as he’s alive, that’s his price of life. But, judging by his words, that price no longer suits him: he seems to be trying to drown his conscience in alcohol, he can’t sleep at night, because he keeps seeing those he shot.
It’s terrifying to imagine how many people before that he may have destroyed — civilians and soldiers from the opposing side. And in passing, almost casually, he mentions another detail that makes everything inside collapse: dead children — first-graders — whom they killed during an assault.
“The regimental commander zeroes people out. He just, really, the guys come back to them after an assault, after an assault. And he just drops them. Bro, I swear to you. <…> And that bas is standing nearby, U***, Alexander, I think his name is. He’s standing there and watching as I just kill people”
Mikhail Pavlyuk, a former fighter of the Wagner PMC, spoke about the “zeroing out” of personnel in the 37th Motor Rifle Regiment (unit 12273 (https://t.me/ne_zhdi_novosti/4453)) of the 25th Combined Arms Army.
He accuses the regimental commander with the call sign “Uzor” of organizing the killing of servicemen after they returned from assault operations. He claims it mainly concerned fighters who were formerly prisoners — and importantly: he says these were Russian servicemen, killed not by the enemy, but by their own side.
“They said they had to be shot, so I shot them. Uzor ordered it, I did it”
He also claims he knows schemes for illegally obtaining payments for dead servicemen. According to him, bank cards remain under the control of command, the dead are оформed as missing in action, and the money is transferred to other people — meaning death becomes a financial operation. And again — in this story, it is Russian servicemen whose payments, by this account, become “prey” for the command.
“With the regimental commander, well, when you go out on an assault, you leave your card. Well, I always left mine with the regimental commander too. That money, the 12 million that comes in, it doesn’t come to relatives. <…> And all the VTB banks in the Luhansk People’s Republic, they’re tied to these people. <…> You give a million, basically, and 11 million is yours. And the relatives get nothing, because you’re considered missing in action”
Separately, Pavlyuk spoke about an assault near Bakhmutske, in a school building where, he says, children were present. He stated that after the assault some children were saved, but there were also deaths.
“We only saved 21, meaning we killed 7 during the assault. <…> we killed 7 during the assault. <…> Bro, there, like, first–second grade”
He also stated that the command was involved in extorting money from personnel, saying that a significant part of monthly pay is taken under various pretexts.
“I just hand over 150 thousand, like, for the common pot”
Mikhail Pavlyuk intends to give testimony to law enforcement, but fears for his safety and insists on immediate termination of service and return home.
And all of this together sounds like evidence that for some people war is not a front line and not an “idea,” but a mechanism: kill — write off — file paperwork — receive — squeeze out. And all of it — on the bones of their own and others.
Source: Telegram channel “DON’T EXPECT Good News” — https://t.me/ne_zhdi_novosti/4611