The former wife of the commander of PMC "Wagner" Utkin seek it through the program "Wait for me"
The legendary commander of the private military company (PMC) "Wagner" Dmitri Utkin, who fought in the Donbass region and Syria, for two years looking for his ex-wife Elena Shcherbinina. To learn about his fate, woman even addressed in the program "Wait for me". "Times" discovered unknown details from the life of the "Wagner": he fought in Chechnya and for which he received the Order.
"I dont know, as he is known. Dmitri Utkin was indeed, Cavalier of the Order of Courage, it was really from the Novgorod region », - Peskov told reporters.
"Times" has decided to find Dmitri Utkin, and found, that the legendary "Wagner" looking not only for journalists, but the ex-wife Elena Shcherbinina, with which he parted in the early 2000s. In July 2015 , she even left the application to the program "Wait for me".
AT 2000 , I went to Moscow, My husband stayed in the Pechora. He commanded a military unit on the border with Estonia. The more we have not seen. A year later, he called my mom in Budennovsk. Then I rang the part, where there was already a new commander, who did not have information about his whereabouts and translation. the connection was lost. is he, as I, Born in 1970 year. Help me find. In June 2015, the first saw him in the Krasnodar Territory, Hot key, He came to see someone from the military, but there is no accurate information. I'm sure, he also wants to know about me, if he is still alive ", - wrote Shcherbinina.
"Times" send Elena a few photos of Dmitry Utkin, which is on the Internet, and the woman confirmed: "Yes, this is it - Dmitry V. Utkin. And if he is in trouble spots, it is very similar to it. He is by nature a soldier and military officer "
According to Elena, search request she sent her ex-husband after his mother's death.
"Mom died, and I was left all alone. And Dima after our parting kept in touch with her and called up, and I would just like to maintain good relations with him ", - says Elena.
searching Dmitry, to report about the death of my mother, Elena learned, that he came to the south of the military unit, located near the village of Hot Key. by the way, it is located near the village of landfill Molkino, on which, According to the media, PMC soldiers "Wagner" were trained before being sent to Syria. "I called to, but I did not connect with him ", - she says.
Elena comes from Budennovsk, it was there that she met with Dimitri. According to her,, after Basayev's raid and the first Chechen campaign, the town was awash with military. "Actually, I'm at it at first did not pay attention. We just were often in the same company, and there were many who want to make love with me. And Dima was very reserved, - says Elena, also serves as one of the units.
- So we have to meet, and did not immediately, and offer him to sign received not immediately, and after, I myself has participated in the second Chechen campaign "
Wherein, according to Elena, to employ it in the service contract just Dmitri: "In Chechnya, I was in the commandant's office in the village of Old Atagi. I also combatant. It was a dilapidated building, windows were laid sacks. But Dmitri himself was in the gorge, they had a base there. And he always came to me. And no one, and with accompaniment. Ahead of the APC and the APC back. And one day there was an attack on our commandant, we fired. He learned about it from the radio message and rushed to the soldiers'.
"The militants have captured some of Colonel, Dima and his men rescued him. He generally Bezbashenny ".
Utkin before the end of the campaign in Chechnya was assigned to Pechora, she continues: "He and I just had a fight and did not communicate. But then a friend called me and said,, Dima wants to talk to me. He said, that goes to the Pechora and would love to go there with me. There we got married, and they gave us a service apartment ".
However, peaceful life Dmitri Utkin had not like: "It is very difficult to adapt. And terribly worried, that is not at war. He wanted a military career - a career military officer, and do not wipe his pants in the headquarters'.
According to Elena, they broke up because, that it failed to fit in with the character of the mother of Utkina. "We broke up largely because of his mother. He was born in Ukraine and grew up without a father. And my mom was on a very strong influence.
It's like living between two fires: on the one hand - I, on the other - his mother. And he even talked to her in a whisper. However, she really wanted, that he lived in the Ukraine and served there.
While Dima had Russian citizenship and it was nothing to do there. She came to us raids and often very ill behaved ".
Elena wants to, to Dmitry learned, she is looking for his, and responded: "I understand, what does he have, perhaps, there is another family and children. But I do not pretend. I would just like to see it ".
The first publications in the Russian media about the soldiers PMC "Wagner" and Dmitri Utkin emerged in the midst of the armed conflict in Ukraine.
According to the portal "Fontanka", PMC "Wagner" was one of the most secret units, fighting in New Russia. Commanders and fighters never give interviews, their photographs with Ukrainian trophies do not appear in social networks, they are not mentioned in the official release authority LNR and DNR.
About the Utkin known, it is call "Wagner", a reserve officer. To 2013 , he was commander of the 700 th of a separate Special Forces Detachment 2nd Separate Brigade of Spetsnaz GRU Defense. After transfer to the reserve worked in the Moran Security Group, Syria participated in the expedition of the "Slavic housing" in 2013 year. FROM 2014 year - the commander of your own units, that he received the call sign code name PMC "Wagner".
In 2014-2015, PMC "Wagner" has acted in Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic. Since the fall 2015 year - transferred to Syria. presumably, it is this division played a decisive role in the storming of Palmyra. Many fighters "Wagner" marked by awards and medals of the Russian Federation.
