After the 2017 videotaped murder of Hamadi Bouta, a Syrian Army deserter, who was beaten to death with a sledgehammer by members of Wagner Group before his body was beheaded and set on fire, and the murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin, Wagner Group made sledgehammers a …

On 13 November 2022, it became known that Russian citizen Yevgeny Nuzhin had been brutally executed without trial by tying his head to concrete with duct tape and hitting it with a sledgehammer. Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, hinted that it …

Nov 14, 2022 · In footage published over the weekend, the man, who identifies himself as Yevgeny Nuzhin, says he surrendered to Ukrainian troops in early September but was kidnapped from the streets of Kyiv on...

Feb 2, 2023 · Among members of the Wagner Group and its supporters, the video of Bouta’s murder has given rise to a culture glorifying violence against noncombatants that is explicitly centered on the symbol...

Nov 13, 2022 · Russia's Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that a former mercenary who was filmed being executed by a sledgehammer blow to the head after changing sides...

Feb 13, 2023 · A video showing the sledgehammer execution of a former Russian mercenary who fled the Wagner mercenary group while fighting in Ukraine was shared on social media on Monday.

Oct 13, 2023 · Neo-Paganism owes much of its popularity within PMC Wagner to the group’s alleged co-founder and Prigozhin’s right-hand man, Dmitry Utkin (call sign “Wagner”), who died in the plane crash ...

Nov 15, 2022 · Nuzhin had been serving a 24-year prison sentence for murder when he was freed in July and conscripted into Wagner, a notorious military group run by a Russian businessman and a close Putin ally.

Nov 24, 2022 · The Kremlin-linked leader of the notorious Wagner mercenary group said Wednesday that he sent a sledgehammer to be delivered to the European Parliament in a dark reminder of one fighter’s...

Nov 24, 2022 · Wagner mercenary group head Yevgeny Prigozhin gave a sledgehammer covered in fake blood to a European Parliament representative on Thursday morning in response to an initiative to designate...