05-05-2024, 08:02 PM
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/russian-convict-soldiers-return-to-communities-as-free-men/103770698
Quote:One killed his father-in-law, another ate a victim. Then they survived Putin's deadly deal for freedom
A gushing caption details how Nikita Semyanov volunteered for the fatherland's army and took part in a "memorable assault on Bakhmut", Ukraine.
But there's something it doesn't mention: the veteran strangled his father-in-law to death in 2021 and was freed from a maximum-security prison to join the war effort.
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Last month, Russian media reported a court in the country's Kirov region sentenced Ivan Rossomakhin, a former Wagner soldier, to 22 years behind bars for raping and killing an elderly woman.
He'd been serving a 14-year custodial sentence for a previous murder when he was freed to join Prigozhin's mercenaries. He returned home and killed again.
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Near Moscow, reports last month emerged of Alexander Glazov — who in 2019 was convicted of giving children instructions online as part of a so-called suicide game — had been freed from prison after fighting for the Wagner group. The articles claimed he was now speaking about the war in schools.
Among the most degenerate returnees would have to be cannibal killer Denis Gorin, who was convicted of four murders and serving more than two decades in an ultra-restrictive "special regime" penal colony before joining the Wagner PMC.
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