A 55-year-old Russian man, previously sentenced to 11 years in prison and then recruited to fight in the Ukraine war, has doused his sister in gasoline and burnt her alive in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, local media outlet NN.ru reported on Friday.
According to law enforcement, the sister died instantly, while the man was hospitalised with multiple burns. The cause of the murder appears to be a domestic dispute.
The man was pardoned upon joining the Wagner Group to fight in the war in Ukraine, as per Baza. However, as of summer 2023 he had returned home and become a person of interest in another criminal case on theft and battery, NN.ru reported.
Russia’s violence (domestic or otherwise) statistics are going to look pretty wild in the future; this isn’t an isolated case and the situation definitely isn’t going to improve any time soon.
I’d say I feel bad for them but I honestly can’t quite muster up the empathy, although that probably says more about me than anything else. I’m Finnish and I’m the first generation in my family who hasn’t either had to live under Russian rule, or fight the Soviets, or be hounded by postwar Soviet-controlled state security because someone in the family dared to stand up to them, so there’s not a lot of love lost here.
Russian domestic violence figures already look wild. It’s a huge huge problem.
