A convicted murderer released from prison to fight for Russia against Ukraine as "cannon fodder" has surrendered and defected to the other side.
Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, was serving a 24-year jail term for killing one person and wounding another in 1999.
He was released after one of Putin's henchmen Yevgeny Progozhin offered convicts the chance to serve in a private military company for six months and then - if still alive - to gain their freedom and a presidential pardon.
