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A number of Wagner Group mercenaries returning from Ukraine have been killed on their home soil, including one who was stoned to death, according to local media reports.
Two more veterans, one reported to be a former Wagnerite, were stoned to death by four local citizens in the Krasnodar region of Russia, near the village of Dederkoy, the local Kuban24 outlet and state TV channel Tsargrad reported on Monday. Their lifeless bodies were discovered on a riverbank on August 5.
Returning Wagner Mercenaries Are Not Getting Hero's Welcome in Russia
“The personnel shortage is very great. I would say that it’s already critical,” Vladimir Kolokoltsev said at a meeting with officials, according to a statement on the ministry’s website Thursday. “Over the past month, 5,000 employees have left the internal affairs structures” and there’s a shortage of investigators, he said.
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Kyiv is considering canceling the visa-free regime with Israel and will request the country be excluded from Ramstein meetings due to its “unfriendly actions towards Ukraine and pro-Russian position on the international arena,” Kyiv Post has been told.
“The Israeli authorities never provided any real help,” a source in Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (RNBO) told Kyiv Post.
Ukraine Plans to Cancel Visa-Free Regime with Israel and Request Its Exclusion From Ramstein
Verstka, a news organization founded shortly after the conflict began, cited figures from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in its claim that a total of 83 explosions occurred in Russia in 2022—more than four times the number recorded in 2021 (20 explosions).
According to Verstka, explosions on Russian territory last year killed 55 people and injured 10,647 others. The outlet reported that the yearly number of explosions in Russia hasn't exceeded 20 in the past 10 years, despite terrorist attacks and gas leaks in residential buildings. It also said that before 2022, the number of victims was in the hundreds, not thousands.
Russia Sees Explosions Quadruple Since War Began: Report
