Ukraine War: How Russia’s Wagner Mercenaries Recruit Prisoners – Politics

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Christopher Koopmann

He is sitting on a bed, pink striped covers, the light is dim, the walls are crumbling. He’s still wearing Flecktarn, a winter jacket over it, and deep furrows on his face. The man introduces himself as Yevgeny Anatolyevich Nushin, from Perevos in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The video, in which Nushin will now talk for 20 minutes, has been published by the Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov. Almost a million people have seen it on YouTube in the past few days. A shocking testimony of what Russia’s President Vladimir Putin expects of his own people in his campaign against Ukraine.

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