An ex-mercenary of PMC Wagner, who fled to Norway, was arrested after a fight

Andrey Medvedev, the ex-commander of the “PMC Wagner” department, who fled to Norway in January and requested political asylum there, was arrested for a fight near a bar in the center of Oslo and violence against policemen during detention.

This is reported by “Novaya gazeta Evropa”, referring to the relevant court ruling. The prosecution documents say that on the night of February 21 to 22, Medvedev got into a fight in the center of the Norwegian capital, after which he resisted arrest and struck the police.

Medvedev’s case will be heard in the Oslo District Court on April 25. The prosecutor charged him with three criminal articles, the publication writes.

• In early July 2022, Andrey Medvedev signed a four-month contract with PMC Wagner. He was sent to Salsk, and from there to the Luhansk region, where he was appointed to the post of commander of the 1st detachment of the 4th platoon of the 7th assault detachment of mercenaries. According to Medvedev, he participated in the battles near Bakhmut and was the commander of the ex-prisoner Yevgeny Nuzhin, who was executed by the Wagnerites with a sledgehammer after his return from Ukrainian captivity.
• In mid-December, a video was circulated on social networks in which a man who introduced himself as the deserter Andrey Medvedev spoke about the bullying of PMC Wagner fighters against each other. He demanded that the FSB investigate mercenaries and businessman Evgeny Prigozhin.
• Medvedev crossed the border near the village of Nikel in the Murmansk Region on January 15, 2023. According to him, he climbed over two fences at the border, and later “under the barking of dogs and the shooting of border guards, he ran away on the ice of the lake.” Medvedev reached one of the border towns, knocked on the first house he came across and asked the residents to call the police. Medvedev was detained and sent to a deportation center, but later released. He applied for political asylum.
• The founder of the human rights organization “Gulagu.net” Vladimir Osechkin claimed that Medvedev intends to testify against Yevgeny Prigozhin in Norway, “Sever.Realii” reports.