YouTube shot: The last words of the neo-Nazi Utkin – „Wagner“: „This is only the beginning of the greatest work in the world“

53-year-old Dmitry Utkin, who died yesterday in the plane in the Tver region, is an almost mythologized person.

An obsessive fan of Hitler and a neo-Nazi, a conspirator professing the „folk Slavic faith“, with several awards for bravery Hero of Russia – he is the real creator of „Wagner“ – a private mercenary army of criminal criminals.

On the evening of August 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private plane crashed in the Tver region.

The Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation reported that 10 people died in the crash, three of whom were crew members.

Rosaviatsia reported that Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin were on the flight’s passenger list. „Medusa“ briefly tells the biography of the last one, after whom PMC „Wagner“ was named, reported RusDelphi.

Dmitry Utkin, with the call sign Wagner, began participating in mercenary operations in 2013. Before that, according to Fontanka, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Pskov Special Forces Brigade of the GRU of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Utkin is said to have chosen his nickname out of sympathy for the ideology of the Third Reich (Richard Wagner is said to be Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer). Those who knew Utkin also told reporters about his Nazi views.

After being discharged from the reserve, Utkin, along with other former security service personnel, went to Syria to fight on the side of President Bashar al-Assad as part of the Russian mercenary group Slavic Corps.

There, in October 2013, they were almost surrounded by rebels and forced to return to Moscow. Later, the leadership of the „Slavic Corps“ was sentenced to three years in a mercenary colony.

Almost immediately after his return, Utkin left for Ukraine – already at the head of his own group of mercenaries. This detachment was called Wagner’s group. Veterans of the Slav Corps were spotted in the spring of 2014, first in Crimea and then in Donbass, where they fought on the side of pro-Russian separatists. According to Gazeta.ru, Wagner’s squad may have been involved in the assassination of several field commanders of the self-proclaimed LPR.

In 2015, Wagner and his squad returned to Syria again, having previously undergone training at a specially equipped base in the Krasnodar Territory, RBC reports.

For the first time in the public field, Utkin appeared on December 9, 2016 – he was spotted at a solemn reception in the Kremlin in honor of Heroes of the Fatherland Day, the recording of which was broadcast by Channel One. The president’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed that Utkin was indeed among the invitees, as he was a „holder of the Order of Bravery“.

In 2021, a case was opened in Ukraine against Utkin for encroachment on the country’s territorial integrity, the press service of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office reported.

According to the investigators, he took part in the military operations in Donbas „under the prior agreement of officials of the Russian armed forces and under their control“ from July 2014 to March 2015.

„In January-February 2014, his units conducted intensive combat operations against units of the ATO forces (anti-terrorist operation — cf. Meduza) in the direction of Debaltsevo. During the fighting, the head of the „Wagner“ PPK was directly subordinate to the commander of the 2nd Army Corps, Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Utkin commanded PMC Wagner during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and was most likely in Ukraine himself.

From the beginning of June 2023, Utkin remains the commander of the PMC. This follows from his statement published in the telegram channel Wagner Unloading, which is associated with Prigozhin.

Nothing is reliably known about Dmitry Utkin’s role in Prigozhin’s failed June rebellion. However, according to a Reuters source close to the leadership of the self-proclaimed DPR, it was Utkin who may have led Wagner’s column of fighters heading towards Moscow.

In July, Utkin, together with Prigozhin, talked with PMC Wagner’s mercenaries in Belarus. This was Prigozhin’s first public appearance after the failure of his rebellion and the news of his „departure“ to Belarus.

A video of the speech appeared on Telegram channels associated with the group on July 19. In it, Prigozhin said that PMC mercenaries intend to make the Belarusian army the „second army of the world“ and in the event of an armed conflict, side with Lukashenko. According to him, PMCs will not stay long in Belarus, after which the fighters will return to African countries and to the front in Ukraine.

„This is not the end, this is only the beginning of the greatest work in the world, which will be done very soon,“ the man with a voice similar to Utkin said afterwards. „Well, welcome to hell.“

These are also his last words in the public space that are known at the moment.

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