Russia is suffering a spate of murders by convicts released to fight in Vladimir Putin’s war who then return home to continue their life of crime.
Other fighters have been confused by the brutality of the frontline and killed once they return to their families.
More fighters have been arrested for sexual violence against children.
Platoon commander Alexander Mameyev, 44, who returned home after the war, was held on suspicion of stabbing his wife Ekaterina to death in front of their sons, aged seven and eight.
His children had to be hospitalized in a state of shock.
Private Sergei Batuyev, 39, a father of three, was detained and accused of strangling his friend Denis Shustov, 41, a Chechen war veteran, during a brawl after returning to the Udmurtia region from the war.
The crazed fighter planned to feed his remains to pigs, prosecutors say.
Batuyev is currently on trial and could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Wagner private army fighter Ivan Rossomakhin, 28, recruited from the prison where he was serving a sentence for murder, killed his village neighbor Yulia Buiskykh, 85, after being pardoned by Putin after six months at the front.
Another of Wagner’s recruits, Georgy Siukayev, 33, is suspected of murdering Soslan Valyiev, 38, a former convict, less than a month after Putin pardoned him.
Andrei Yakimov, 49, a volunteer combatant, killed his wife Viktoria Yakimova, 47, a secretary, on his way home from the war.
Another notorious case was that of 23-year-old Alexander Ionkin, an injured volunteer, who used a flare gun to cause an inferno at a nightclub in November.
Military Sergei Korshunov was sentenced to eight years in prison after stabbing his friend to death during a drinking session on his return from Putin’s war.
The judge imposed a lenient sentence because the suspect was a ‘participant in a special military operation’ in Ukraine.
A 19-year-old soldier Vladislav A is accused of raping a girl, 17, during his first leave from the war.
He was detained in Taganrog.
In the Orlov region, a 36-year-old man who fought for Putin in Ukraine faces up to 20 years in prison after being detained for sexually abusing his stepdaughter, 10, on leave from the war.
