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In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s

In Moscow's Shadows

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Mangushev's Injuries in the Crimean War in Ukraine

Russia's war in Ukraine has become something of, let's call it, a public private partnership with Wagner and other mercenary forces. And then he got shot in the head, in battle, not so much. Doctors say that he was wounded as a result of a shot from a short barreled gun at close range in the occipitoe perioful region downwards at an angle of 45 degrees. He was shot from a pistol held above his head, which to me does sound a lot like so-called control shot - favoured by Russian contract killers.

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