هشت سال با واگنر

Through the storms and fire of military conflicts of recent years, through the waste heaps of Donbass, the deserts of Syria and the impenetrable African jungles, the Russian man walked with a wide gait. Together with his comrades in arms - Russian soldiers, veterans of hot spots - he brings peace, order and justice to those places where the very concept of humanity has been lost. Popular rumor has retained different names for this group of warriors - the battalion-tactical group “Wagner”, PMC “Wagner”, or simply “musicians”. And all these years, along with the military specialists, there was one more person - not with a weapon, but with a camera. And if the fighters of the Wagner PMC entered their names into the military chronicle of Russia, then, of course, the very book of the military exploits of the Wagnerites was written by this very person. His name was Kirill Romanovsky. Kirill had the extraordinary qualities of a military journalist operating on the front line. He made his way to the very edge of the fighting in Aleppo, Palmyra and Deir ez-Zor. Together with the assault troops, Kirill entered Debaltseve and took cover from the fire of Ukrainian snipers. On the front line, Romanovsky stood steadfastly with the Wagnerites under mortar fire, when mines exploded literally a few meters from the positions, and received shell shock and wounds. During his business trips, Kirill recorded his conversations with soldiers of the Wagner PMC. He managed to collect more than two thousand pages of typewritten text, which contains stories of the military exploits of the “Wagnerites” on the near and far frontiers. This book contains the most striking stories and interviews with fighters of the Wagner PMC, collected by Kirill Romanovsky during his business trips from 2015 to 2022. Kirill Romanovsky was a bright and extraordinary person, easy to communicate with, a reliable and loyal comrade. Unfortunately, Kirill's last fight turned out to be the hardest. On the night of January 4, 2023, Kirill Romanovsky died. He worked until very recently and, shortly before his death, systematized the collected materials and wrote a few lines “from the author,” but did not manage to publish this book himself. Therefore, we, his friends and colleagues, are releasing it in memory of Kirill.