Junior Sergeant Igor Sudin shot dead two FSB officers, Igor Yakubinsky and Sergei Privalov, in the occupied city of Kherson after they caught him drinking alcohol while in uniform, a report said.
Russia’s 2022 re-invasion of Ukraine has damaged not only bilateral relations between the two majority–Eastern Slavic neighbors but also perhaps inadvertently destabilized ties, links, goodwill, and mutual trust between the Russian periphery and the center, on the one hand, and between certain ethnic groups within the Russian Federation, on the other. Witness the recent conflict between Buryats and Chechens in the invading …