LONDON –
For Russian wife killer Azamat Iskaliyev, the war was a one-way ticket out of jail.
The 37-year-old had served less than a third of a nine-year murder sentence — for stabbing his spouse to death in his car in the summer of 2021 because she wanted a divorce — when he was freed and pardoned by Russia in return for fighting in Ukraine.
The six-month battlefield stint didn’t diminish his appetite for violent revenge against women who spurned him.
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