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Read previewRussian military personnel were convicted of 116 murders in 2023, Mediazona, a local news website, reported.
Advertisement"The high number of homicides by serving and veteran Russian soldiers are likely in part due to enduring war-related chronic poor mental health issues," it wrote.
"It is a story about invisible violence," said Kirill Titaev, a Russian sociologist and criminology expert at Yale, told the Times.
Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the risk of pardoned convicts re-offending upon their release "inevitable," per the Times.
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