The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was maintaining its presidential policy of pardoning prisoners who agree to fight in Ukraine, after Russian media revealed the release of a man convicted of Satanic and cannibalistic murders, AFP and Agerpres reported.
Mykola Ogolobyak, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2010, was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin and will return home in early November, reports the news portal 76.ru from the Yaroslavl region, where Ogolobyak lived and where he was killed. crimes
Putin pardoned Satanist Mykola Ogolobyak, who brutally killed teenagers in Russia 15 years ago. He cut off parts of their bodies, cut out their hearts, cried and ate. It was part of the ritual.
He killed civilians in Ukraine for 6 months, and now he is at home as a free man and… pic.twitter.com/4YbBv4hf8g
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This pardon and the pardon of other convicts, including one of the co-conspirators in the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, caused timid discussions in Russia about the expediency of such a policy.
In any case, the Kremlin, which was asked again on the subject on Wednesday, does not foresee any changes.
“The problem is not new, it has been raised more than once, and now everyone is carefully looking at these lists of pardoned persons,” said the press secretary of the Kremlin Dmytro Peskov.
The Kremlin suggests that prisoners are being used as “cannon fodder”
“But, I repeat, we are talking about specific conditions (pardons) related to being on the front lines, for a certain time on the front lines, participating in assault groups, and only after that amnesty occurs,” Peskov explained, adding that there is no revision of this policy .
Victims’ families have in other cases condemned the measure, especially since some families were not warned about these releases. Answering a question on this topic in early November, Peskov defended these pardons, saying that “people convicted, including of serious crimes, atone for their crime with blood on the battlefield.”
Tens of thousands of detained Russians were sent to the front in Ukraine, often under contracts with paramilitary groups such as Wagner’s group. If they survive after six months of fighting, they are eligible for a pardon.
The pardoned cannibal was part of a satanic sect
These people often fought in the most dangerous areas of the front and, according to the testimony of the late leader of Wagner’s group Yevgeny Prigozhin, they were used as cannon fodder.
As reported by the 76.ru site, which interviewed 33-year-old Mykola Ogolibyak, the latter was seriously injured during the fighting and is currently disabled.
He and five other youths, all teenagers at the time, who claimed to belong to a satanic sect, were convicted of the ritual murders of four teenagers, whom they dismembered before eating the pieces of their corpses.
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