INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian serial killer pardoned by President Vladimir Putin in exchange for fighting in Ukraine was killed on the front lines, the
independent Mediazona news website reported Thursday.Denis Zubov, 41, from the southern Russian city of Volgograd, was sentenced to 21 years
in a maximum-security colony in 2017 for the murders of three people
confuse investigators.Zubov was sent to Ukraine after being recruited from prison and killed in April 2023, Mediazona said
said.Russia launched a prisoner recruitment campaign in the summer of 2022, spearheaded by the Wagner mercenary group, to replenish its
military presence in Ukraine
media reported several cases of convicts who committed serious crimes being released after fighting at the frontline.Nikolai Ogolobyak, who
was sentenced to 20 years for the ritualistic murder of a group of teenagers in 2008, was freed seven years early in November 2023 after
serving with the Russian army for six months in Ukraine.Murderer and cannibal Denis Gorin, 44, from the Sakhalin region, was sent to Ukraine
from prison, where he was sentenced to 22 years in a special-regime prison colony for a 2018 murder
Russian media reported in November that Gorin was recovering at a hospital in the Far East.And in the Primorye region, Maxim Volkovoy, a
convicted murderer who was released seven years early after fighting in Ukraine, was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing a
