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The Economist
The Economist
15 Aug 2024


NextImg:Ukraine’s convicts take the fight inside Russia
Europe | Freedom on the line

Ukraine’s convicts take the fight inside Russia

A hard-bitten major commands a unit of felons—and dreams of kebabs in Moscow

|Sumy region

LAUGHTER CUTS through the crunch of gravel as Major Nazariy Kishak’s jeep arrives. He is four hours late. “It was a shitstorm,” he says, grinning under his crooked boxer’s nose. “A column with 70 Chechens. All with Saint Peter now.” The enemy had been trying to cross the border just north of his unit’s new entry point into Russia.

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