Crime wave hits Russia as prisoners freed to fight in Ukraine return home
Crime wave hits Russia as prisoners freed to fight in Ukraine return home: Wife 'knifed to d£ath in front of her young sons' is one of a string of murd£rs and s£x attacks blamed on soldiers Russia is suffering a wave of murders from convicts freed to fight in Vladimir Putin's war who then return home to continue their life of crime. Other fighters have become twisted by the brutality of the frontline and kill once they get back to their families. Still more fighters have been detained for s£xual violence against children. Platoon commander Alexander Mameyev, 44, returned home from the war was detained on suspicion of stabbing his wife Ekaterina to death in front of their sons aged seven and eight. His children had to be hospitalised suffering from shock. Soldier Sergei Batuyev, 39, a father of three, was detained accused of strangling his friend Denis Shustov, 41, a Chechen war veteran, during a brawl after returning to Udmurtia region from the war. The crazed figh...