Russia seems to have two new poster youngsters for its war against Ukraine and supposed campaign to avoid wasting “conventional values” from the deviant West: a cannibal and a assassin united on the battlefield.
Almost two years after Moscow first hatched its deranged prison-recruitment scheme to make use of hardened criminals as cannon fodder in Ukraine, a selfie shared on social media offers a glimpse of the nation’s new regular.
Dmitry Malyshev, sentenced to 25 years in 2015 for murdering a person and filming himself consuming the sufferer’s coronary heart, amongst different issues, may be seen grinning and embracing Alexander Maslennikov, who obtained 23 years for murdering and dismembering two ladies he met at a nightclub.
Malyshev confirmed to V1.ru that each he and Maslennikov signed a contract to get out of jail by serving within the Russian army—in a infamous unit comprised of convicted rapists and killers.
“Alexander and I served collectively and signed a contract along with the Protection Ministry in October 2023,” Malyshev advised the outlet, including that each are serving in Storm V, a penal army unit Vladimir Putin signed off on in June 2023.
He went on to say that the 2 convicted murderers will not be like different criminals unleashed on Ukraine. They’ve obtained principals, in line with him.
“I’ve identified individuals who got here right here from the colony only for a change of surroundings. They often disappear rapidly. However I understood why I used to be going and the place I used to be going. How would you react in case your little daughter was advised how you can put a condom on accurately in elementary faculty? Or if males will stroll down the road licking one another? Is that this regular for you? It is not regular for me,” he stated, apparently referring to sex-ed courses and homosexual males, a favourite bogeyman in Kremlin propaganda.
Malyshev’s phrases horrified the Russian public years in the past when he was tried for killing and devouring one other human being. “We’re frying human flesh. Right here it’s—a coronary heart. I’ve already added onion,” he stated in video he’d filmed on his cellphone as a memento.
Now Malyshev is among the many hordes of ex-convicts elevated to hero standing within the warfare as he supposedly fights to guard “conventional values.”
A minimum of 57 peculiar Russians have been killed to date by convicts who returned residence after receiving a pardon to participate within the warfare, the impartial outlet Verstka reported final week. After a sequence of disturbing headlines within the Russian media about ex-convicts arriving residence and butchering their neighbors or raping schoolgirls, the Russian Protection Ministry stopped providing pardons and commenced providing solely conditional launch.
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