 Norwegian police have arrested a former commander of the Wagner mercenary group on suspicion that he tried to illegally cross the border back into Russia after seeking asylum in Norway earlier this year. The man's lawyer said on September 23.Andrey Medvedev, who escaped Russia in January via its Arctic border with Norway, has described running his Russian guards' fired shots at him. He has spoken about his time fighting in Ukraine as part of the Wagner group Medvedev spoke to Reuters in an interview in February in which he said I'm sorry for his role in the Wagner group, police said in a statement late on September 22 that a man in his 20s had been taken into custody for attempting to illegally cross the Russian border but did not name him. An officer with the Finnmark local police declined to give the arrested man's identity. It is clear that I served in Wagner, there are some moments that people do not like, that I served in general, that I went, but we do not have anyone born as scientists.