They Left Town as Convicts. Will They Be Buried as Heroes?
Briefly

When the corpse of a Wagner mercenary fighter arrived in his small Russian village in late February after he was killed fighting in Ukraine, some residents wanted to give him a hero's burial.Others could not forget that the former prisoner had stabbed his father to death.The ruckus prompted a stream of acrimonious comments on social media, with those demanding military honors for the fighter, Ilshat Askarov, flinging words like Shame! or Traitor! at opponents.
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