Wagner Group promised pardons for convicts who survived six months fighting in Ukraine — then buried them in Russian graveyard

There were around 200 graves at the site on the outskirts of Bakinskaya village, in Krasnodar region, when Reuters visited in late January. Late last summer, a plot of land on the edge of a small farming community in southern Russia began to fill with scores of newly dug graves of fighters killed in Ukraine. Key points:

The resting places were adorned with simple wooden crosses and brightly coloured wreaths that bore the insignia of Russia’s Wagner Group, a feared and secretive private army.

There were around 200 graves at the site on the outskirts of Bakinskaya village in Krasnodar […]

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