A court in Russia's Rostov region sentenced a former fighter of the Wagner mercenary group, Pavel Nikolin, to six years and 11 months in prison on December 18 for opening fire with an automatic weapon on a group of police officers in December of last year, wounding one of them. Nikolin pleaded not guilty, saying he opened fire at the Russian police because he mistook them for Ukrainian soldiers. Nikolin, 39, was recruited by the Wagner mercenary group last year from a penitentiary in Bashkortostan and sent to the war in Ukraine. To read the original story from Current Time, click here.
