Pardoned Russian ex-cons recruited by Wagner group return from war in Ukraine to kill again

The village of Derevyannoe in Karelia, northwest Russia, has a well-kept feel to it. Apple trees heavy with fruit and tidy vegetable gardens, boats on trailers ready for sailing in the nearby lake and wood stacked up high for winter.

Up above you can just about make out the sound of woodpeckers tapping away in the pine forest canopy as dogs bark fiercely behind corrugated iron. It does not look like a place for mass murder, but where does. Irina Zhamoidina stands in front of the charred remains of her brother, Artyom Tereschenko's home. He and her 71-year-old father, Vladimir, were murdered here on the night of 1 August, when two men, both of them ex-convicts, one fresh back from the frontline, broke in and stabbed father and son to death before setting the property on fire."My dad definitely did not deserve such a death," Ms Zhamoidina says quietly."We are from a good family.

The two men then continued down the road to another house a few hundred metres away and killed all four who lived there, three men and a woman, before setting their house on fire too. A drunken binge with a dose of drugs mixed in, Ms Zhamoidina thinks - a 'zapoi', as they're known inOne of the men, Maxim Bochkarev, was known locally as a troublemaker.

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