After six months on the Ukrainian front, former detainees recruited by the Wagner paramilitary group can return home free. The return of these men, convicted of serious crimes and pardoned, poses serious challenges to Russian society.
One of the former detainees, sentenced to ten years in prison for murder, returned to his village in the Kirov region, after spending six months in Donbass. Intoxicated, armed with a pitchfork, an axe and a knife, he began to threaten to kill everyone.