Prisoner turned Wagner mercenary executed

A Russian prisoner turned mercenary has been brutally killed by Kremlin-linked Wagner troops after trying to desert. The troops filmed the encounter to impress their boss, nicknamed ‘‘Putin’s chef’’. In the video, the man’s head is taped to a brick as he confesses to desertion, before a Wagner fighter attacks him with a sledgehammer. ‘‘It seems to me that this film should be called: ‘A dog dies a dog’s death’,’’ said Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is the financier of Wagner Group and is considered a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president.