Russian deserter who opened fire on police is member of Wagner Group—report

The gunman is reportedly a convict recruited by the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit, for Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

Police have detained a suspected Russian deserter who fired at police officers at a city near the Ukraine border.

Visitors wearing military camouflage stand at the entrance of the 'PMC Wagner Centre', associated with the founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block on the National Unity Day, in Saint Petersburg, on November 4, 2022."The offender has been arrested. As a result of well-coordinated operational-search actions, he was found in an empty building near Novoshakhtinsk.

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