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Russian defector Col. Igor Salikov's claims summarized

High-ranking Russian defector confirms Russian military false-flag operations to murder Ukrainian civilians in occupied Donbas with the objective to sabotage the Minsk-2 peace agreement in 2015
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Summary of claims made by Russian defector, GRU Military Intelligence Colonel Igor Salikov, in his affidavit to the International Criminal Court. (From Igor Sushkov's Substack - Subscribers can download entire English translation and the original affidavit in Russian at the end of this post.)
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• Igor Salikov wishes to surrender to the ICC and face justice, as it appears he committed war crimes in Ukraine.

2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Worked with Dmitry ‘Wagner’ Utkin even before the formation of Wagner PMC, including at Redut PMC.
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• Participated in Russia's military coup of govt in eastern Ukraine in 2014, ordered by Putin’s Presidential Administration.

• Witnessed mechanisms of fraudulent ‘referendum’ in occupied Donetsk in 2014, leading to formation of ‘Donetsk People’s Republic.’
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• Commanded an FSB special forces unit in occupied Donbas under guise of ‘Ukrainian separatists.’

• In 2015, witnessed false-flag operations of Russian forces shelling Ukrainian civilians in Donbas which were blamed on Ukrainian Armed Forces, with specific purpose of disrupting ‘Minsk-2’ peace
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agreement between Ukraine and Russia.

• Witnessed the Russian forces mining the streets and paths in occupied Donbas in the spring of 2015 with the specific intent to murder Ukrainian civilians and blame the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Many Ukrainian civilians died including children.
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• Witnessed torture and executions of civilians in Ukraine & Syria.

• Witnessed a mass purge of field commanders by Wagner PMC in 2014-2015 in occupied Donbas.

2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Was head of Russian military intelligence detachment - tasked with capturing Kyiv SBU headquarters
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& assassinating key SBU employees at onset of Feb 2022. Entered Ukraine through Chernobyl.

Three Ukrainian security service traitors from Yanukovich era attached to unit.

• Witnessed torture & executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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• At end of Mar 2022, was tasked with the execution of 5 Ukrainian civilians in Bucha. However, Salikov disobeyed order instead released hostages.

Russian military opened criminal case against him for this act. Salikov was able to flee & has been in hiding since, until arriving in the Netherlands
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to turn self in to ICC on Dec 18th 2023.

• Already provided extensive testimony of Russian war crimes to Ukraine's Prosecutor General [confirmed]

• Worked with Human rights defender Vladimir Osechkin for over 1 year after fleeing Russia to prepare & organize testimony to ICC [confirmed]
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