The release of convicted murderers and abusers back into society after serving the Wagner Group in Ukraine has raised alarms about public safety.
Upwards of 50,000 Wagner fighters are estimated to have taken part in the Ukrainian conflict, with roughly 40,000 of them being convicted criminals conscripted into service. Most of these men, according to, are believed to have died on the battlefield, but the newspaper further reported that those who managed to survive six months into their serviceby Putin. Prigozhin has estimated that around 5,000 men have received their freedom in this manner.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin are seen. Convicts pardoned by Putin after serving time in the Wagner Group have been accused of murder after returning home.According to the newspaper's findings, these pardoned fighters, among them men who were convicted of murder and domestic abuse, have raised alarms about public safety as they return to their homes in Russia and its claimed territories.
Siukayev was pardoned in the fall and sent home to Tskhinvali, the capital of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia. He had previously been convicted of murder and sent to prison in 2014. On Monday, he was arrested and accused of fatally stabbing 38-year-old Soslan Valiyev. In response to the incident, Wagner claimed in a statement that Siukayev had been acting in defense of bystanders that Valiyev was harassing.
Another incident was reported in late March and saw the arrest of 28-year-old Ivan Rossomakhin for the alleged murder of 85-year-old Yulia Buiskich in the small town of Novyj Burets, roughly 60 miles east of Moscow. Rossomakhin was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2020 for murder. He is accused of killing the elderly woman with an axe on March 29, one day after police agreed to remove him from town during a public meeting.
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