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Ex-Con Freed to Fight in Ukraine Accused of Butchering Six Back Home<!-- wp:html --><p>via VK</p> <p>A Russian ex-convict who was apparently freed from prison to take part in the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/troops-have-scary-message-about-ukraines-counteroffensive-against-russia?ref=topic">war against Ukraine</a> has now been accused of returning home and butchering six people in a drunken rampage.</p> <p>Igor Sofonov, 37, is one of two suspects arrested in the Republic of Karelia after authorities discovered two burned down homes containing the remains of six people who’d been stabbed to death. The victims were identified as a 39-year-old man and his 71-year-old father in one home, and a man and his wife, brother, and a pensioner in the second home.</p> <p>Police say a “long-standing domestic conflict” motivated the savage murders in the village of Derevyannoye but gave no further details.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-con-freed-to-fight-in-ukraine-accused-of-butchering-six-back-home">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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A Russian ex-convict who was apparently freed from prison to take part in the war against Ukraine has now been accused of returning home and butchering six people in a drunken rampage.

Igor Sofonov, 37, is one of two suspects arrested in the Republic of Karelia after authorities discovered two burned down homes containing the remains of six people who’d been stabbed to death. The victims were identified as a 39-year-old man and his 71-year-old father in one home, and a man and his wife, brother, and a pensioner in the second home.

Police say a “long-standing domestic conflict” motivated the savage murders in the village of Derevyannoye but gave no further details.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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