Prisoner Konstantin Kisilyov, who was convicted of the murder of two women, was recruited by the private military company Wagner and awarded the Order of Valour for his services in the war in Ukraine, the website Vaznie istorii writes.
Kisilyov was serving a prison sentence in the maximum security prison No. 6 Mariy El on charges of intentional homicide and causing death by negligence. The indictment states that in 2016 the defendant, while intoxicated, visited an acquaintance and attacked a woman who was visiting him.
When the woman tried to avoid him, "Kisilyov struck her multiple blows with a wooden stick on the head, then took a knife and inflicted at least 29 wounds on her head, chest and other parts of the body." He then "unwittingly" choked the witness to the crime. The court sentenced Kisilyov to 9.5 years in a maximum security prison.
In 2022, he was recruited by the Wagner company, which sent him to the war in Crimea.
"Kisilyov's wife told his co-defendants that her husband received the Medal of Valor and the position of squad commander because he was the sole survivor of the squad during an artillery bombardment. According to her, he was personally decorated by Prigozhin," writes the website Vaznie istorii.
The mercenary's wife also sent his fellow prisoners a video in which Kisilyov describes what he looks like. In particular, he says that he lives in the trenches and is on the front line.
"I am alive, I am not wounded, everything is fine. One of the fifteen survived. All is well. God is watching over us," he says in the video, asking that his mother be given half the money she receives and the rest be left to him so he can save more and buy "a new apartment in Krasnodar."
On November 13, Wagner's channel on the Telegram messaging app published a video of the execution of prisoner Yevgeny Nuzhin.
The video states that Nuzhin began fighting on Ukraine's side in September, and that he was kidnapped from Kiev in November. Nuzhin woke up in a basement, where he was told he would be "put on trial," he says in the video. After these statements, the video shows someone killing Nuzhin by smashing his head with a sledgehammer.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recently claimed to be the founder of Wagner, called the video "an excellent piece of filmmaking." He then asked the attorney general to investigate the involvement of U.S. intelligence agencies in Nuzhin's execution.
Source: APM
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