Mikhail Popkov, 58, nicknamed ‘The Werewolf’ had killed 83 women, He now wants to join a controversial scheme that has seen thousands of murderers, rapists and other hardened criminals become mercenaries.
The notorious Russian rapist and serial killer, Mikhail Popkov has declared his interest to fight for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, DailyMail has reported.
Meanwhile, President Putin has also pardoned those who fought and stayed alive for six months in the war, according to Sahara Reporter.
The country’s prison recruitment scheme reportedly sees criminals sent out to fight with pro-Russian forces in Putin’s illegal war in exchange for a pardon if they continue to fight and stay alive for six months.
Popkov, a former police officer known as ‘The Werewolf’ and the ‘Angarsk Maniac,’ murdered 83 women and is currently serving two life sentences plus nine years in prison after three separate trials.
Russian authorities allowed state television to interview him behind bars as he begged to join Putin’s fighters, claiming radio-electronics experience from his time as a Red Army conscript.
He hopes to gain his freedom through the sickening Kremlin scheme that has freed up to 40,000 prisoners.
Popkov is even suddenly confessing to more murders in order to join the Wagner private army, which is led by Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin and is supporting the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
When asked by Russian state TV ‘what is your dream?’, he replied: ‘To join the army.’
The mass killer continued: ‘I would not hesitate to do so [join the war]
Popkov raped the majority of his victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 50, before murdering them with axes, hammers, knives, screwdrivers, and spades.
Married father-of-one Popkov conducted a reign of terror against women out alone between 1992 and 2010 in his home city Angarsk which he wanted to ‘cleanse of prostitutes’.
A psychiatric evaluation diagnosed Popkov with homicidal mania, ‘a condition when a person has an irrational desire to kill someone’, reported TASS.
Nevertheless, the mass murderer was declared sane.During the pandemic he was put to work in jail making face masks.
