‘No Body, No Payment’: Wagner Mercenary Deaths Being Hidden From Families Back In Russia – Analysis

By Andrei Krasno

(RFE/RL) — The first time that Vitaly Votanovsky was contacted to find out the fate of someone fighting in Ukraine for the notorious Wagner mercenary company was in November 2022.

He received a Telegram message from the aunt of 22-year-old Andrei Kargin saying that she hadn’t heard from her nephew for...