Alexey Marushchenko, founder of a small Russian private military company named Yastreb ("Hawk"), is off to the gulag for 18 years after pleading guitly to charges of extortion, fraud, kidnapping and murder. With official support from a Russian general, Alexander Dembitsky, Yastreb recruited men to fight in the Ukraine war, but extorted money from those who signed up and brutalized those who refused to pay.