Russia

Russia’s Wagner Group Begs Schoolkids to Join: ‘We Have the Best Prospects’

DEATH TRAP

An armed Wagner fighter wearing a ski mask visited a Moscow school and gushed about the wonderful careers the students can have killing people.

Allison Quinn
Allison Quinn 

News Editor

The coffin of Wagner mercenary Dmitry Menshikov, killed during the war in Ukraine, is covered with flags during his funeral in the Alley of Heroes at a cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, Dec. 24, 2022.
Igor Russak/Reuters
Allison Quinn

Allison Quinn

News Editor

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