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DAILY MAIL
A convicted murderer released from prison to fight for Russia’s Wagner group has become the second mercenary to be beaten to death with a sledgehammer after he was accused of defecting to Ukraine.
Dmitry Yakushchenko, 44, had his head taped to a what appears to be a pile of bricks with clingfilm before being bludgeoned to death with the sledgehammer in a harrowing ordeal that was filmed and published on messaging app Telegram.
Yakushchenko was accused of treason for deserting after arriving on the front line. He was later recaptured by his former Wagner colleagues, who went on to execute him.
The 44-year-old is now the second Wagner fighter to be executed with a sledgehammer after convicted murderer Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, was killed by his countrymen in November last year.
Harrowing video shows Yakushchenko confessing to surrendering to Ukraine as his head was strapped tightly to a block of bricks with clingfilm, while a man with a sledgehammer stands…
