A Russian prisoner recruited by paramilitary group Wagner agreed to fight in Ukraine in exchange for his freedom. All he had to do was stay alive long to collect. ”See you in six months.”
Emanuele Satolli for The Wall Street JournalBARVINKOVE, Ukraine—Yevgeny Nuzhin, an ex-cop and convicted killer, had carved out as good a life as a penniless inmate could expect inside a high-security Russian prison.
During his two decades behind bars, Mr. Nuzhin had ingratiated himself with inmates and prison authorities, affording him a contraband phone, an exemption from prison work and three nights with a woman he had married in the prison chapel.
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