Another Prisoner Freed for Wagner Burns Two Women Alive

An ex-con freed from prison to take part in Russia’s war against Ukraine as a member of the notorious Wagner Group has returned from the battlefield and allegedly burned two women alive, the latest in a long line of grisly crimes to unfold on Russian territory after the high-risk prison-recruitment scheme.

The 32-year-old, identified in several reports as Denis Stepanov, is accused of deliberately torching a home in the Krasnoyarsk Krai to target two women, a 68-year-old woman and a 35-year-old woman, according to Baza. The younger woman, the 68-year-old’s daughter, was the former Wagner fighter’s girlfriend, according to Krasnoyarsk Online.

The two had reportedly argued before the inmate-turned-mercenary became enraged that his girlfriend didn’t want to go home with him; he is accused of setting the home ablaze as revenge.

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