The BellingCat investigation project found that at least three criminal authorities from Russia died in Ukraine. They committed their crimes in the 1990s and 2000s, received long terms, and then recruited to the Wagner PMC and went to Ukraine.
Andrey Berezhny from Balakovo in the Saratov region. In 1994, he got a job as a market director, and when he was killed, he decided to take revenge. Over time, the careful became the leader of the Killers gang. Once he shot from a grenade launcher to the editorial office of a local television company – he did not like her editorial policy. Then no one was injured. The court was able to prove ten murders to which he was involved in the careful. In 2012, he received 25 years in prison. His death in Ukraine became known in early January 2023.
About the death of Sergei Maskimenko, nicknamed Max from Penza, we also talked in early January. In the mid-1990s, he joined the Olympian gang (it was named after the sports complex around which the future participants of the gang lived), was twice the champion of Russia in karate. The gang was engaged in racketeering, extortion, pimulation and murders. Maksimenko received 25 years in 2014. Killed in Ukraine at the end of December and was buried in Penza on January 4.
55-year-old Igor Kusk from Nizhnekamsk, a war veteran in Afghanistan. Having served, he created the Kuskovsky group, she specialized in custom murders. In 2015, he was given 23 years old, the court considered the mitigating circumstance that the piece was an activist of veteran organizations, and also taught physical education and initial military training. The date of his death in Ukraine is unknown. He buried him on the alley of the heroes of the cemetery of his native Nizhnekamsk.