Drunken conscript beats senior officer to death in Russia

A drunken conscript has beaten a senior officer to death in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Oblast.

Source: Russian publications Meduza and Mgorsk.ru

Details: The incident occurred on 23 December. A drunk senior sergeant attacked a captain in a compartment of a staff carriage of a military train at Misyash station.

It is noted that both servicemen were called up following mobilisation.

The senior officer died on the spot from his injuries.

A criminal case was opened on this incident under the article on "violent actions against a senior officer committed during a mobilisation period."

The senior sergeant faces from 5 to 15 years in prison.

On 28 December, the Magnitogorsk Garrison military court took him into custody for two months.

Background:

• On 27 December, Russian media reported that eight conscripted men had been arrested near Moscow after leaving Luhansk Oblast with weapons; a serviceman from Kamchatka [Russia’s Far East – ed.] has been sentenced to 1.8 years in prison for refusing to participate in hostilities in Ukraine, and two local residents have been killed during their arrest in Kabardino-Balkaria [a subject of the Russian Federation, part of the North Caucasus Federal District – ed.] for allegedly preparing an attack on the military registration and enlistment office.
• On 6 December, Baza reported that a soldier with a machine gun who had wounded a policeman was wanted in the Russian city of Novoshakhtinsk [Rostov Oblast – ed.].
• On 7 December, a deserter who opened fire on a police officer using a machine gun was detained in Rostov Oblast in the Russian Federation. According to information from media outlets, it appears he was a soldier from the Wagner Group, recruited from one of the penal colonies earlier.