Russians are complaining because more and more of their fellow citizens are suffering from the hands of “North Military District veterans” returning from the front: some are killed, others are maimed.

Over the past two years, the number of Russians who suffered at the hands of war participants, returned from Ukraine and continued their “combat exploits” in civilian life, exceeded two hundred. Moreover, 107 of them died, the rest were seriously injured, reports Vestka . Most often, relatives and acquaintances of “veterans” are under mortal threat. The victims of their crimes were residents of 64 regions of the Russian Federation and unrecognized South Ossetia .

“The most common crime in this sample was the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm that is life-threatening. Returning war veterans committed at least 87 such crimes, resulting in 18 deaths and 70 more seriously injured. Another 25 survivors. , received serious injuries as a result of attempted murder, excess of self-defense, negligence and due to violation of traffic rules,” the researchers note.

They explain that, obviously, the number of such crimes is greater than they were able to detect. After all, the courts do not publish all decisions on the cases under consideration, and in their decisions they may not indicate “pardon” or the participation of the accused in the “SVO”. Government agencies and the media also rarely report about the “combat” past of killers, and the crimes fall into standard criminal information, so they go unnoticed.

It is assumed that the cause of such “sudden” conflicts may be personal insults inflicted on the war participants, insults to their relatives, or recklessly spoken unpleasant words about the “special operation,” Russian soldiers and the Wagner PPK. However, most of these crimes have a domestic motive. In more than half of the cases, alcohol and drugs appeared in the published court decisions: in 19 cases in “pardoned” cases and in 15 in “military” cases.

A typical situation for such crimes is when, while drinking alcohol together, war participants attack their friends, neighbors or random people. For example, pardoned prisoner Alexei Borisov visited and drank with his friend and his partner in the Ivanovo region. Suddenly, a quarrel arose between them, during which Borisov first beat the man with a wooden pole, and when his cohabitant tried to protect him, he killed her and threw her body into the river. For this, the “Wagnerite” was sentenced to 16 years of strict regime.

And ex-contractor Nikita Avdyushkin from the Astrakhan region killed his fellow villager while drinking alcohol together. He brutally beat his victim and strangled him, and buried his body in a hole. For this, the most humane Russian court towards criminals sentenced Avdyushkin to 8 years in a maximum security colony.

Wagnerist Vasily Vasyukov in the Rostov region, “during a quarrel that occurred against the background of hallucinations,” stabbed his 77-year-old grandmother, who raised him instead of his mother, several times with a knife. Earlier, as the murderer’s sister told the court, he “took her home from a nursing home and was her favorite grandson.” Vasyukov was sentenced to 7 years of strict regime.

In the Moscow region, on a playground, after a dispute over “SVO” and ridicule of the military, the “pardoned” Andrei Rykashev killed his acquaintance. The man was wounded in the carotid artery, and while he was dying, the Wagnerian went for cigarettes and returned to the scene of the crime. While waiting for the police, he talked with a child who was also on the playground at that moment. For this murder he received 10 years in a special regime colony.

His beloved prisoner Mikhail Zharikov, who returned from military exploits in Ukraine, stabbed a man in the heart with a knife in the Belgorod region, and ex-prisoner “front-line soldier” Sergei Uglinsky in the Kemerovo region killed an acquaintance for “rude words” about the Wagner PPK. For this, the men received 8 years in a maximum security colony.

The cause of drunken quarrels between “war heroes” is also jealousy or old grievances. In the Tula region, Wagner mercenary Ilya Massalitin stabbed him several times and then crushed a man’s head with an ax, making him jealous of his former partner. And in Udmurtia, “Akhmat” volunteer Sergei Batuev strangled an old acquaintance with a cable, who allegedly once borrowed from him and did not return it. For their crimes, the SVO participants received 11 and 10 years of strict regime, respectively.

Despite the fact that Russian “heroes” returning from the war are merciless to those around them, their “exploits” committed in Ukraine are considered by the courts to be a mitigating circumstance. In particular, of the 134 published sentences of only a third of the war participants, the judges did not take into account participation in the SVO as a special merit. Also, in 42 cases, the courts took into account “illegal behavior of the victims” as a mitigating punishment (16 for those pardoned and 26 for other military personnel). At the same time, the courts of this category of defendants ignore alcohol as an aggravating circumstance when making decisions. Both for those pardoned and for military personnel, it was taken into account only in a third of cases.

In particular, out of 53 sentences given to pardoned ex-prisoners, the court took into account alcohol or drug intoxication only in 10 cases, and ignored it in another 28 cases. Also, in 81 definitions for military personnel and volunteers, alcohol was taken into account as an aggravating circumstance only in 9 cases.

Meanwhile, the Russians are planning to honor their exploits in Ukraine in a special way. We can advise them not to forget to mention the “exploits” of their “front-line soldiers” upon returning home.

“The invaders continue to spread the cult of war and death in the temporarily occupied territories. The enemy plans to build a “museum of his own,” that is, to glorify Putin’s war of aggression against Ukrainians and human morality in general. Now the Russians are looking for designers, and the local Gauleiters are choosing,” reports the Center for National Resistance.

It seems that the occupiers intend to create this museum in Crimea. But the Center for National Opposition notes that the ruins of the unfinished building will most likely become a museum of occupation after the liberation of the peninsula, and all those involved in the construction and “research workers,” that is, propagandists, will be held accountable.


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