Mercenary Who Brandished Ukrainian Skull Shot Dead

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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