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As for the soldiers, the ones in there are not the type of soldiers that expect anything better than death from Putin's psychos.
There are a pretty steady stream of them being paraded on the internet now that Mariupol has fallen. They look surprisingly like the faces-of-meth tweakers which populate my area in the Pacific Northwest. There is just something about that look (and behavior toward non-combatants.) It's more than just the tattoos.