A former Euro football star was killed in a fight in Ukraine.
Alexey Bugaev, 43, signed up to fight Petni After nine and a half years in prison for drug trafficking.
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Bugaev was previously its former member RussiaIts national football team.
He also played two matches for the Russian national team at the 2004 European Championships Moscow Party Torpedo and Locomotive as well as other provincial parties.
The star ended his career in 2010 at the age of 29.
In September, Bugaev was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison by a court in southern Russia for drug trafficking.
He later expressed his desire to join Putin’s war Ukraine.
But on Sunday, Bugaev was killed in action.
His father Ivan Bugaev told the Sport24 news outlet: “Unfortunately, the news of Alexey’s death is true. It happened today.”
His agent said fierce fighting made it impossible to retrieve Bugaev’s body for burial.
A desperate Putin is actively recruiting prisons to keep his meat-grinder war churning.
In October, ruthless Vlad signed a new bill Rapists and murderers can be released before trial if they go and fight in Ukraine instead.
his rice The aim was to support Russia’s growing losses Ukraine Governments struggle to attract fighters.
The brazen Putin assumed that if he ordered his troops to the border he would be able to enter Ukraine and take Kiev within days.
But nearly three years later, the Russian dictator has suffered heavy losses on the frontline.
Putin is believed to have lost several thousand troops – Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy put the number at around 200,000.
In an update earlier this month, he claimed that 198,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and another 550,000 wounded.
