The BBC reports:
Notorious Russian army captain and mercenary Igor Mangushev has died in hospital, days after he was shot in the head at close range in occupied Ukraine, his friends have said. He commanded an anti-drone unit in occupied Luhansk.
He took to a stage last summer holding a man’s skull. In a video posted on social media in August, Mangushev was filmed saying the skull belonged to a Ukrainian fighter killed defending the Azovstal steel works in the southern port of Mariupol.
An extreme nationalist, Mangushev said Russia was not at war with people, but with an idea of Ukraine as an “anti-Russian state”, and it did not matter how many Ukrainians died. Mangushev emerged from a neo-Nazi movement to co-found the private mercenary group Yenot (raccoon).
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“He took to a stage last summer holding a man’s skull.”
…genocidal Russian mercenary shot dead at close range in Ukraine raising questions who took out the neo-Nazi in what his wife calls an execution… https://t.co/s069chPAPH— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) February 8, 2023
Russian nationalist Igor Mangushev, who brandished what he claimed was the skull of a Ukrainian soldier while addressing a group of fighters in the “Donetsk People’s Republic” last year, has died after being shot “at close range,” according to state media.https://t.co/hKvNyfMutl
— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) February 8, 2023
Russian media reports that Russian nationalist mercenary Igor Mangushev, who called for the genocide of Ukrainians, performed on stage with the skull of an alleged defender of Mariupol, and was shot in the skull under unclear circumstances, died in the hospital. https://t.co/pLon0oBvxC
— NOËL ?? ?? (@NOELreports) February 8, 2023
Igor Mangushev, an affiliate of the private mercenary Wagner group, was shot in the head at close range in eastern Ukraine over the weekend. He claims to have created the “Z” symbol of support for the Russian invasion.https://t.co/X3dI0ol9MP
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 6, 2023