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‘I’m a person again’: the Ukrainian convicts recruited to fight the war
Last year, Volodymyr Prysiazhniuk quarrelled with his father-in-law, Yuriy. Both men were drunk. “I’d had a litre of beer,” Prysiazhniuk recalled. The row escalated and he punched Yuriy twice in the head. The older man fell over – dead. In court …