Dmitry Utkin
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 Dmitry Utkin    (Soldier) | |
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| Born | 11 June 1970 |
| Died | 23 August 2023? (Age 53) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Founder of | Wagner Group |
Wagner founder | |
Dmitry Valerievich Utkin is a Russian army officer. He served as a special forces officer in the GRU and is said to be one of the founders of the Wagner Group, with his own call-sign reportedly being Wagner.[1]
There exists a photo from him which which shows him with multiple Nazi tattoos, including Schutzstaffel (SS) insignia.[2]
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References
- ↑ https://jamestown.org/program/russian-pmcs-in-the-syrian-civil-war-from-slavonic-corps-to-wagner-group-and-beyond/
- ↑ "When this photo surfaced, some concerns online were expressed about the person in the photo. In order to check if the person in the photo is really Utkin, an old passport photo of him was used with Microsoft Azure face recognition software. This software allows to compare two photos and give a confidence rating of how likely it is that the two faces belong to the same person. A score above 0.7 suggests with high reliability that it is the same person. In this case, the score given by Microsoft Azure was 0.71723." - http://archive.today/2023.06.26-024044/https://en.respublica.lt/signs-of-neo-nazi-ideology-amongst-russian-mercenaries
