“A former Wagner fighter who returned to Russia, who was a convicted murderer, slit the throat of an elderly woman and, stabbed and nearly killed another elderly man.”

Putin faces a “wave of criminality in Russia” as convicts freed to fight Ukrainians return home, explains journalist Alec Luhn.

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