One of Russia's most notorious propagandists, Sergei Mardan, justified the atrocities of the private military company Wagner, whose mercenaries are killing Ukrainian civilians. He said that the "special operation" is a war aimed at destroying Ukraine.

The statements were made in Mardan's program on Solovyov Live. Anton Gerashchenko, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, drew attention to the aggressive propaganda and shared a fragment of the program on his Telegram-channel.

Mardan was very angry with the comment of the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, who condemned the war crimes of the Wagner PMC and called for the punishment of mercenaries.

The Ukrainophobe began foaming at the mouth to justify the Wagnerians. He called the Ukrainian flag "Nazi" and our state language "abnormal."

According to him, the war against Ukraine can only be "a war of destruction."

"Because this, this, can only be destroyed, burned with hardened iron and nothing else! There can be no peace talks, no truce, no multilateral meetings!" Mardan shouted.

As OBOZREVATEL wrote:

- On April 17, the Russian human rights organization Gulagu.net released a more than hour-long film with testimonies of two former PMC commanders about the crimes of the Wagnerites in Ukraine. Both claim that the most brutal crimes were committed on the personal orders and approval of Yevgeny Prigozhin. In particular, in the east of our country, the mercenaries of Putin's "cook" shot civilians, even teenagers aged 15-17.

- The Prosecutor General's Office said that this data is being checked as part of criminal proceedings.

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