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pop_jop/Getty Images (OSLO, Norway) — Andrey Medvedev is tense. He arrives unsmiling. Sitting in a hotel lobby in central Oslo, he anxiously eyes a man walking past the bar, asking why he’s looking at him. Medvedev’s anxiety is understandable. Until recently, he was a unit commander in the Wagner Group, the Russian private military company […]

Konstantin Yefremov (NEW YORK) — A senior Russian army lieutenant who fled Russia told ABC News he witnessed his country’s troops torture prisoners in Ukraine, including beating and threats to rape them. Konstantin Yefremov, the most senior Russian soldier to defect and speak out openly against the war, is now in hiding and spoke to […]