The Oktyabrsky District Court of Orsk sentenced former Wagner PMC mercenary Ruslan Magdiev, who beat a man to death after returning from the war, to seven years in a maximum security colony. The Orenburg Regional Court upheld this verdict, Kommersant reports.
According to investigators, in November 2023, Magdiev was drinking with a friend in his girlfriend’s apartment. At night, the alcohol ran out, and the company went to drink beer at the Mechta cafe. At his door, Magdiev had an argument with 51-year-old Vitaly Fedorovich. According to the former Wagnerite, he “insulted him with obscene language.”
When Fedorovich went outside, Magdiev followed him, called out to him and offered to talk, but the man did not react to this. The ex-mercenary caught up with Fedorovich, turned him around and hit him in the face with his fist, causing him to fall and hit the back of his head on the asphalt. After that, Magdiev kicked the man several more times — as a result, Fedorovich “the bones of his face sank to the back of his head,” writes Kommersant. He died on the spot.
Magdiev was detained only three days later. As a result, the court found him guilty of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm, resulting in the death of a person through negligence (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). Magdiev’s lawyer filed an appeal against the verdict, in which he indicated that the court “insufficiently took into account mitigating circumstances” — in particular, the man’s participation in the war and the presence of a state award.
The former Wagnerite has already been convicted — in 2018 he was sentenced to nine years and 11 months in a general regime colony in the case of murder of two or more people by a group of persons, as well as robbery and theft. In November 2022, the man was recruited by Wagner PMC and signed a six-month contract with the mercenaries. For his participation in the war in Ukraine, he was awarded the medal “For Courage,” and Putin pardoned the ex-prisoner. In the summer of 2023, Magdiev returned to Orsk.