A Russian convict who was conscripted out of prison to fight in Ukraine for the Wagner Group, then murdered an 85 year-old grandmother while home on leave and imprisoned again, has been re-conscripted to go fight for Vlad’s armies once again, the victim’s granddaughter tells the BBC.
“Grandma’s killer has escaped punishment for his crime, again, and has gone to fight in the war,” said Anna Pekareva, the granddaughter of Yulia Byuskikh, who was raped and murdered in 2022 by Ivan Rossomakhin, who was convicted in April and sentenced to 23 years in a high-security prison, with the court noted that the killing “involved extreme brutality.” Pekareva said the warden informed her family this week that Rossomakhin had been conscripted again, just days into his sentence.
“My first reaction was terror. I read the forensic reports and I know what this person did to my grandmother. It’s monstrous that he has been released again,” said Pekareva, adding “The fact that this is happening in the 21st Century… there are no words that can describe what’s happening!”