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A convicted murderer who was released from prison to fight for Russia has been beaten to death with a sledgehammer by his countrymen after 'surrendering' to Ukraine.
Yevgeny Nuzhin had been serving a 24-year prison sentence for murder when he was freed earlier this year and conscripted into Wagner group, Vladimir Putin's private army.
The 55-year-old was reported to have defected soon after arriving on the frontline, and in September told a journalist he felt like 'cannon fodder' and had decided to surrender as some of his family live in Ukraine.
However, a pro-Russian source says he was later kidnapped by pro-Kremlin forces and has since been killed in revenge for his decision to leave.
Grey Zone, a media outlet in Russia, posted a graphic video in which Nuzhin can be seen strapped to a column of bricks with clingfilm.
Yevgeny Nuzhin had been released from prison earlier this year to fight for Vladimir Putin's private army, Wagner group
The 55-year-old, pictured here in prison, had been serving a 24-year sentence behind bars for murder
In the video the convict can be seen tied to a column of bricks with cling film before he is brutally killed
He defected to Ukraine after reaching the frontline of the conflict, but was later recaptured by Russian troops and executed
As the camera focuses on him he says: 'I am Yevgeny Anatolievich Nuzhin, born in 1967, who went to the front to go to the side of Ukraine to fight against the Russians.
'On 4 September, I carried out my plan to go over to the side of Ukraine.
'On 11 November 2022, I was on the streets of Kyiv, where received a blow to the head, as a result of which I lost consciousness.
'I woke up in this basement, where I was told that I was going to be tried.'
The footage shows him being hit with a sledgehammer multiple times, with a message from the pro-Wagner Grey Zone Telegram channel saying: 'Those who understand know that a sledgehammer and traitors have a close relationship.'
It is unclear how Nuzhin was returned to Russia, with some doubt cast on whether it would have been possible to kidnap him from the streets of the Ukrainian capital.
It has been suggested this could have been a scripted addition by Wagner to warn other fighters.
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