War in Ukraine: these Wagner fighters, conscripted in prison and treated as heroes on their return

Correspondent in Moscow

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Last October, Olga Pavlova, a pensioner from Novgorod in northwestern Russia, nearly fell ill when neighbors showed her a video in which she recognized her brother's killer with three men. .

All former criminals, conscripted in prison to fight in Ukraine.

All four mutilated, of course, on their return from the front, but alive, free, pardoned, and warmly congratulated by the very man who enlisted them, Evgueni Prigogine, the boss of the mercenaries of the Wagner group.

Ten years ago, Stanislav Bogdanov, now 35, coldly murdered magistrate Sergey Zhiganov, 32, in his home after torturing him overnight with a poker to extract money and PIN codes from his bank cards.

Early morning,

Bogdanov finished off his victim by dropping dumbbells on his head three times, at the height of a man.

He was sentenced to twenty-three years in prison but did not serve any…

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