According to several Russian media outlets, Vladimir Putin pardoned Denys Gorin, a serial killer from Sakhalin, and Mykola Ogolobyak, who was convicted of ritual murders of teenagers for fighting at the front.
In May 2023, British secret services had suggested that the Russian Defense Ministry was recruiting in prisons to expand the ranks of its army Ukrainian front. “The Russian Ministry of Defense has intensified its program to recruit Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine since the beginning of 2023,” the British Ministry of Defense said.
A new example of this phenomenon has been revealed by several Russian media outlets, cited by Ukrinform, Ukraine’s national news agency. Actually a first man, Denys GorinHe was released because he fought in it was sentenced to 22 years in prison for killing a man before cutting up his body, put it in the fridge and eat it. The former prisoner was eventually wounded at the front and pardoned by Vladimir Putin in October 2023.
A second man, Nikolai Ogolobyak from the city of Yaroslavl, was released. Originally from the city of Yaroslavl, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison and was not scheduled to be released until 2030 The ritual murders of young people in 2006. According to his father He would have spent six months at the front in the “Sturm Z” regiment before he was injured and returned home in early November, where he now lives with his mother.
According to the Russian independent media Mediazona Almost 23,000 men left Russian penal colonies “in just two months, in September and October” 2022. Almost in total 100,000 prisoners who would have been released since the war in Ukraine, according to our colleagues.