‘Wagnerites’ Whose Detention Failed In Minsk In 2020 Are Now Fighting In Ukraine

The militants have been identified.

An investigation by Ukrayinska Pravda showed that among the Wagner PMC mercenaries in Ukraine there are those who were detained in Minsk in 2020.

One of the militants was 41-year-old Maksim Koshman, aka “Korshun”. Since 2014, he has been a freelance fighter of Wagner PMC and one of 33 mercenaries who were detained in Belarus in 2020 and handed over to Russia.

In Ukraine, criminal proceedings were registered against Koshman on the fact of participation in an illegal armed formation during a pseudo-referendum in Slovyansk in 2014.

After the Ukrainian military established control over the city, Koshman fled to the occupied Horlivka and continued to participate in the war against Ukraine. Subsequently, he received a Russian passport.

An analysis of his social media shows that he still lives in the so-called “DPR”, receiving awards from terrorists.

Gennady Fetisov is also among those who were detained in Belarus in 2020. Previously, he served in the Berkut unit of the Ukrainian police. Now he lives in the terrorist “DPR” and fights against Ukraine.

He actively supported the beginning of the “special operation” and the pseudo-referendum on social media.

Another of the former Wagner mercenaries detained in Minsk, Vladimir Selikhov, also supports Russia's war against Ukraine.

He almost never publishes photos from the war. There are only a few with him wearing uniform and posing with the Russian flag. Others are in civilian clothes, but in the comments he explains that the photos are old.

“Wagnerite” Andrei Chernyshov participated in the capture of the Luhansk airport in the summer of 2014. Four years later, he was on the list of the SSU as a mercenary who was brought to Syria on the Varyag missile cruiser and fought in that country. In 2022, he returned to fight against Ukraine, and died in the summer.

Komi native Anton Vakhturov also died in the war against Ukraine. This is evidenced by the posts on social media and in local news.

According to former employees of the Ukrainian special services, Anton Vakhturov was one of the participants in the execution of a civilian in Syria.

Then the “Wagnerites” tortured an unarmed man to death, cut off his head, smashed it with a sledgehammer, and burned the body. The militants video-recorded all this.

In August 2020, the Ukrainian special services were preparing a large-scale operation to detain a group of Wagner militants, for which they lured them to Belarus.