01/06/2026
Russian military personnel continue to terrorize not only Ukrainians, but also their compatriots. The end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026 did not become a lull due to the New Year holidays – both in terms of the number of crimes committed by the occupiers who returned from the front, and in terms of sentences handed down. However, even for particularly serious crimes, most of the defendants will not be held accountable.
Read about what happened on the territory of the aggressor country in the material of OBOZ.UA.
Women and children under attack
A real shock for the residents of Kursk was the information about the rape of a local girl by the commander of a platoon of military unit 93392 (6th tank regiment). Denis Shchokin abused an 11-year-old child in an apartment on Pigoreva Street. The 44-year-old occupier is married and has an adult son.
Under Russian law, for raping a person under the age of fourteen, he faces 12 to 20 years in prison. But it is virtually guaranteed that Shchokin will avoid punishment by going to war in Ukraine. This has already become a common practice in the Russian Federation.
Another occupier is currently under investigation for the molestation of a 13-year-old girl in the Arkhangelsk region . The pedophile turned out to be a serviceman of military unit No. 54740 in the Murmansk region, Vladimir Krasnov . The 35-year-old occupier communicated with the teenager on messengers on sexual topics and encouraged him to have sex.
Krasnov was previously convicted of creating fictitious companies and illegal financial activities. He voluntarily entered into a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense in February 2024.
And in the Republic of Tyva , an occupier who had returned from the front tortured his beloved woman. A friend with whom he had a relationship came to visit 53-year-old Mikhail Kazantsev in Kyzyl . The occupier accused the woman of treason, beat her, and held her in an apartment for five days, subjecting her to brutal torture.
On the sixth day of the abuse, when Kazantsev went to the store and forgot to lock the door, the woman put on his clothes and ran away. Doctors diagnosed the victim with a concussion, extensive burns, stab wounds, and a fracture from a blow with a crutch.
Kazantsev had previously been convicted four times: for robbery, for grievous bodily harm resulting in death, for violation of administrative supervision, assault on a government official, and attempted murder. After his last sentence in prison, he signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense. There is a high probability that the same thing will happen now.
“War will erase everything”
Many crimes in Russia are committed by occupiers who have “gone overboard.” A striking example is what happened in the Kaliningrad region .
Vasyl Yarmolych did not return to duty from vacation. During his two-month absence, he managed to rob a taxi driver, inflicting 18 knife wounds on him and stealing his phone, headphones, bank cards, money, and sneakers from the car.
Yarmolych had already been tried for assault before. While visiting, he strangled a woman with a wire and tried to kill her daughter, who survived but became disabled. The criminal was then sentenced to 19 years in prison, but was released from the colony to serve in the war. And here is the natural conclusion – a new crime.
Another brutal crime was committed by 50-year-old occupier Mikhail Molochkov. He left the military unit without permission and hid for several months, moving around the regions, then in the Udmurt city of Sarapul he came across a household room in which a janitor and his friend were sitting.
After drinking with them and waiting for his new acquaintances to fall asleep, Molochkov set fire to their belongings and propped up the door of the utility room from the outside. The janitor died from acute carbon monoxide poisoning, and the woman from a thermal burn.
A military court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Molochkov to 18 years in a penal colony, five of which he must spend in prison, and the rest of the term in a strict regime. But the criminal has no intention of sitting. He said that he is satisfied with the sentence and will go to war. He said that he can still “hook a few ho*ls to the next world.”
However, last time he spent only 27 days at the front, after which he escaped without being injured. He had already been convicted of grievous bodily harm that caused death, and signed a contract in the colony.
“Epidemic” on the roads
A real horror for the residents of the Russian Federation has become drunk military drivers . Most of them returned from the war, in particular on vacation. The number of those caught drunk driving in half a year has exceeded four thousand. And this is what has become known, in most cases they do not even draw up a report. But the most cynical thing is that, even after hitting a person to death, the occupiers avoid responsibility.
For example, near Volgograd, a criminal case was dropped against a Russian occupier who, while drunk, hit and killed 49-year-old nurse from the Kalachivsk Central Regional Hospital, Olga Demyanchenko. An examination confirmed that there were no malfunctions in the car, and the driver had the opportunity to avoid the collision.
The investigator told the deceased’s son that the perpetrator of the accident had “not been drinking that much” and that the military could… run people over with impunity.
“When asked about the alcohol in the driver’s blood, I was told that the amount of ethanol was not that high. So, as a member of the SVO, I can now hit a person and nothing will happen to me? The investigator said: yes, nothing will happen,” complained the nurse’s son, who is also a military man.
Every day, the number of crimes committed by the “liberators” at home is steadily growing. There is no need to count on a fair trial: both murderers and rapists are given the opportunity to “wash away their sins with blood” – to go to war against Ukraine. If they survive, their commission of a new crime in the Russian Federation is almost inevitable. A vicious circle.
The residents of the aggressor country themselves, whose friends or relatives suffered from the “heroes of the SVO”, are emotionally discussing what is happening on social networks: “We were waiting for a boomerang hit”, “It will be worse from now on”, “They should not have been released from behind bars!”, etc.
But that’s where the whole “protest” ends.
“But the most cynical thing is that, even after hitting a person to death, the occupiers avoid responsibility.”
Stories about the leniency toward such serious crimes will spread throughout the roach army like wildfire. Many more will commit crimes now, knowing they are immune to being prosecuted. What do they have to lose anyway? Is prison worse than living in the horrors called war? A war that they KNOW won’t end as soon as they once hoped.
“Vladimir Krasnov”
*Another* convicted criminal pedophile known as “Krasnov”? What are the odds!?!?
Maybe they are related. 😄