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Thrown in jail, let out the next day to join the military because everyone is getting called up, rinse and repeat.
At least he wasn’t murdered with a sledgehammer like that Wagner guy who refused to fight. >

That was a different story. He was captured by Ukrainians, gave interviews saying he'd like to fight in their side, then somehow (that part is shady) was swapped to wagner and they killed him. >

This sounds like a massive screwup.  They handed Russia an golden opportunity to make sure their troops to fight to the death rather than surrender.