The boss of a Russian crime gang was sentenced to 23 years in prison for his crimes.
The Wagner Group had been recruiting prisoners to fight.
The man died after being hit in the head with a piece of metal.
A Russian crime boss who was sentenced to 23 years in jail and was released to fight in Ukraine was killed in action.
According to reports, Kusk was the leader of a gang that was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to prison.
The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was asked to join the fight by Kusk, according to his widow.
He was sent to the front line after a representative from the paramilitary group came to get him.
According to the report, he died on September 6 after being hit in the head with a piece of metal.
She said her husband was not afraid of anyone, despite being 55 years old. It was reported that Kusk had served in the war.
Hundreds of mourners, including local officials, attend the funeral of the Kusk in a village 500 miles east of Moscow.
Men in military uniforms are firing machine guns. The ex-crime lord was buried in the "walk of fame" of the city cemetery with other soldiers killed in Ukraine, and his grave was adorned with large bouquets.
A video recently surfaced of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the shadowyWagner Group and a close Putin ally, recruiting men at a Russian prison to fight inUkraine.
They were promised freedom if they served for six months but were warned that they would be killed if they left.
The video corroborates the previous reports from The Daily Beast and The Wall Street Journal.
The presence of Kusk in Ukranian suggests that the men were taken from prison.
The group is said to be a mercenary outfit, a private military contractor, and a private army.
It is accused of committing war crimes in Africa and has close ties to the Kremlin.
The group has been tied to Russian rebels in the pro-Russian Donbas region.
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