In Petrozavodsk, 44-year-old prisoner Yevgeny Eremenko, who was recruited to participate in the war in Ukraine, was buried. This was reported to Mediazona by his mother Tatyana Koteneva and her friend.
Eremenko, who was sentenced in 2020 to 10 years in a strict regime colony in a case of extortion, was serving his sentence in the Petrozavodsk IK-9. At the end of May, Eremenko stopped calling his mother, and in June he contacted her and said that he was being transferred to another region.
On August 14, two men came to Koteneva's house, introduced themselves as «from Zhenya», and handed over the death certificate issued by the self-proclaimed LNR. The woman's son was killed on July 24 in Bakhmut, a Ukrainian-controlled city in the Donetsk region, it said.< /p>
On August 18, a private driver brought the body to Petrozavodsk from St. Petersburg, the pensioner herself paid him. A few days after the funeral, according to Koteneva's friend Marina Gorodilova, the mother of the prisoner was compensated 145 thousand rubles for the funeral. -publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Sat on 10 years old, enlisted in the Wagner PMC, died in Ukraine. An example of one prisoner from Karelia
In the Petrozavodsk IK-9, prisoners were recruited to be sent to Ukraine, one of the convicts and a local lawyer, Ivan Varfolomeev, who knows several people serving sentences there, told Mediazona. He admitted that they were representatives of PMC Wagner, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recruited prisoners in other colonies around Russia.
In late July, Important Stories reported the death of three prisoners from the St. in their documents were indicated not real names, but nicknames. Among them was Konstantin Tulinov; according to Gulagu.net and Fontanka, in the pre-trial detention center he collaborated with the administration and beat other prisoners. Director Nikita Mikhalkov devoted a separate story to his death in his program on Rossiya-1. -cite__image» alt=»1″ />“Primarily interested in murderers and robbers — you will like it with us. It seems that Yevgeny Prigozhin personally recruits mercenaries in the colonies