ANOTHER SETBACK FOR PUTIN As Russian Wagner mercenary known as 'The Executioner' for butchering prisoners of war is shot dead by a Ukrainian sniper in latest blow to Putin's invasion

 Russian Wagner mercenary known as 'The Executioner' for butchering prisoners of war is shot dead by a Ukrainian sniper in latest blow to Putin's invasion

• Mercenary Vladimir Andonov, 44, killed fighting in Ukraine, Russian media says 
• Wagner Group soldier was shot by a sniper near city of Kharkiv on June 5 
• Andonov fought in Russia's first Ukraine invasion in 2014, then in Libya and Syria
• He was known as 'the executioner' to Ukrainians who accuse him of participating in the massacre of prisoners of war at Logvinovo, in Donbas, in 2014
  
  
  
• A Russian mercenary who gained notoriety for butchering prisoners of war and civilians in the Donbas has been killed fighting in Ukraine.

  Vladimir Andonov, 44, a fighter for the shadowy Wagner Group, was shot by a sniper near Kharkiv during a reconnaissance missions on June 5, Russian media says.

  Andonov was known to Russians as 'Vakha' or 'the volunteer from Buryatia' after the region he was from, but to Ukrainians as 'the executioner' for massacres he helped carry out during Russia's first invasion of the country in 2014.

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