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The Wagner Group has plugged Russian manpower deficiencies in Ukraine. Photo by Igor Russak BERLIN – In September a 55-year-old Russian named Yevgeny Nuzhin appeared in a video published online by Yuri Butusov, a Ukrainian blogger. A haggard-looking Nuzhin, sitting on a mattress in a basement in Ukrainian captivity, explained that he had been recruited from a prison to join the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian private military company (PMC). As with other volunteers, he said, he was offered a week’s training before being sent to Ukraine in September. At the front, he was ordered to retrieve the corpses of...
