These Russian convict soldiers earned their freedom in Ukraine. When they got home, some killed again

"I barely slept for the first three days," she says. "My main emotion was just rage, and the desire to do everything … to get as many consequences for him as possible."The snap was posted on VKontakte — Russia's answer to Facebook — in February, and features a beaming soldier on a stage, surrounded by children.

Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin first used it to bolster his Wagner private army, but the country's military has also pursued it ardently, particularly after the oligarch was There's more than just feelings of injustice driving a growing number of Russians to criticise the policy. Again, detail was missing: one of the men arrested over the murders, Igor Sofonov, was a convict who earnt his freedom in Ukraine.

Prigozhin and Russia's top military brass haven't discriminated when it comes to which criminals can sign up. 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.

One from June last year features what's left of a convict unit recording a message announcing they're going to stop following instructions from generals. "It was just over a year ago when prisoners wrote to us and said people are disappearing from here, some clerks from Prigozhin's group are coming here and people are disappearing," he says.

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