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When the troops come home in Russia and Ukraine
Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC) in exchange for freedom. He returned home from Ukraine in 2023 and, within days, killed an 85-year-old woman in a nearby town. One week after beginning his new sentence in August 2024, he was […] The post When the troops come home in Russia and Ukraine appeared first on Asia Times.
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