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'Unpopular' Ukrainian Ex-cons Battle Back From Russian-held Jails

Yulia's husband was different from most Ukrainians captured by the Russian army, usually prisoners of war whose fate moved crowds.

International Business Times · Aug 18, 2024

An ex-convict returned from war and a Russian village lived in fear. Then police say he killed again

Some convicts recruited by Russia's private military contractor Wagner to fight in the war in Ukraine are coming home and committing new crimes

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2023

The Brutality of Brittney Griner's New Home

"People die from hard physical labor and inability to access medical treatment that they need," said one former inmate.

Reason · Nov 15, 2022

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In the Ukraine war, a shadowy key player emerges: Russia’s private army of mercenaries

BERLIN — As Russia suffers one devastating military setback after another in Ukraine, a key player in the conflict is stepping out of the shadows: the private army known as the Wagner Group.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 5, 2022

‘We thieves and killers are now fighting Russia’s war’: how Moscow recruits from its prisons

Inmates describe visits by Yevgeny Prigozhin, reported head of the Wagner group, who is said to offer pardons for those who enlist

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2022

Questions loom over Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Kharkiv

Ukraine has managed to turn the tide of war, at least for now. What may happen next?

Al Jazeera · Sep 12, 2022

Vladimir Putin sends mass murderer nicknamed 'The Maniac' to fight in Ukraine

Russia sent a man named 'maniac' to the frontline in Ukraine straight from a penal colony jail cell. Now dead, Ivan Neparatov was awarded a prestigious Russian award for fighting in Vladimir Putin's military

Daily Mirror · Sep 7, 2022

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Vladimir Putin's forces MUTINY as Russian soldiers refuse to slaughter Ukrainians

The other video parades recruited jail inmates at the frontline in the pro-Vladimir Putin Wagner private army, after being signed up with a promise of their sentences being wiped

Daily Mirror · Aug 18, 2022

Fears for Ukrainian police officer captured by Vladimir Putin's forces after massacre

Maryana Chechelyuk has not been heard from since the massacre at a detention centre in Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, which each side blames on the other

Daily Mirror · Aug 3, 2022

Russians Flee Putin Regime to Join Ukraine Refugees in Israel

The moment Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Russian filmmakers Anna Shishova-Bogolyubova and Dmitry Bogolyubov knew they had to leave Moscow. "We were the next on the list," the couple told AFP in their borrowed flat in Rehovot, a quiet Israeli city 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tel Aviv. Once…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 17, 2022

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