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Igor Girkin also know as Igor Strelkov, the former military chief for Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, sits in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow's City Court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the annual meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

‘Fish’s head is completely rotten’: Russian military insiders aim at Putin over Ukraine war failures

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FILE - In this Friday, July 11, 2014 file photo, Igor Girkin also known as Igor Strelkov, a pro-Russian commander, center, arrives for the wedding of platoon commander Arsen Pavlov and Elena Kolenkina in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. A top pro-Russia rebel commander in eastern Ukraine has given a version of events surrounding the Malaysian jetliner crash _ suggesting many of the victims may have died days before the plane took off. The pro-rebel website Russkaya Vesna on Friday, July 18, 2014, quoted Igor Girkin as saying he was told by people at the crash site that &#8220;a significant number of the bodies weren&#8217;t fresh,&#8221; adding that he was told they were drained of blood and reeked of decomposition.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Pro-Russia rebel commander suggests passengers died days before Malaysian flight

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