Ukrainian President's Office says murdered mercenary willingly took part in prisoner swap
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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