Perm region resident Dmitry Zelensky, who choked a girlfriend he was having a relationship with and then chopped her up in a meat grinder, was pardoned for fighting in Ukrainehis mother reported to the local website “59.ru”.

After the murder of 27-year-old Tatyana Melekhina, Zelensky tried to “create an alibi” but then he turned himself in to the police. “I dismembered the girl’s body, put it in a meat grinder, put the bones in three bags which I threw into the river,” he had confessed during the interrogation. In 2019 he was sentenced to 11 years in a prison colony.

According to his mother’s statements, her son called her in November 2022 and told her that he signed a contract with the mercenary organization “Wagner” for six months and that he is at the front outside Luhansk. Zelensky contacted his mother again in the spring.

In June, he was pardoned by Vladimir Putin and currently lives in the Russian-occupied region of Luhansk.helps his aunt in the household” and then thinks about working as a builder in Anapa, his mother stated. She believes that he was rightly pardoned because “he himself is sorry for what he has done and has repented”.

The mercenary organization “Wagner” began recruiting prisoners for the war in Ukraine in the summer of 2022. Some prison colonies were visited by the founder of the mercenary organization Yevgeny Prigozhin himself. The prisoners were promised a pardon, based on “secret decrees of the Russian president” after they had served six months at the front. More than ten murders and other serious crimes committed by prisoners returning from the war have already been reported.