Ukrainian President's Office says murdered mercenary willingly took part in prisoner swap
Source: Dozhd
Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said in an interview on Wednesday that Yevgeny Nuzhin, the former prisoner and Wagner PMC fighter who was brutally killed as a “traitor” after allegedly defecting, willingly agreed to be returned to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.
“We have a very simple approach. A captive soldier can sign a voluntary refusal from the exchange procedure. And we will have a record of it,” Podolyak said.
According to Podolyak, Wagner PMC founder Evgeny Prigozhin may have decided to have Nuzhin killed in order to make an example of him.
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