The Russian sons of a fighter bludgeoned to death "for treachery" have denounced the barbaric killing by a pro-Vladimir Putin mercenary army closely linked to the Russian president's defence ministry.
Horrific footage, too graphic for the Mirror to show, was released showing convicted murderer Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, being killed with a sledgehammer in an extrajudicial killing by the notorious private Russian military group, Wagner.
The convict had been released from prison to go to fight against Ukraine but then he absconded, defecting to Ukraine, and criticised Putin’s war by claiming that he and others were “cannon fodder”.