Russia: Wagner’s mercenary, who had murdered two women, was awarded the Medal of Valor

The prisoner Konstantin Kisilievwho had been convicted of murdering two women, he was recruited by the private military company Wagner and he was awarded the medal of valor for his services in the war in Ukraine, writes the website Vaznie istorii.

Kisiliov was serving a prison sentence in Mari El maximum security prison No. 6, on charges of premeditated murder and manslaughter. The indictment states that in 2016 the defendant, being under the influence of intoxication, attacked a woman who had visited him.

When the woman tried to avoid him, “Kisiliev managed to hit her multiple times with a wooden stick on the headsubsequently he took a knife and inflicted at least 29 wounds on her on the head, chest and other parts of the body”. Subsequently “unwittingly” suffocated the witness to the crimes. The court sentenced Kisiliev to 9.5 years in a maximum security prison.

In 2022 he was recruited by the Wagner companywhich sent him to war in the Crimea.

“Kisilyov’s wife, told his co-accused, that her husband got her the Order of Saint Andrew and the post of squad commander because he was the only survivor of the division during an artillery bombardment. According to her, he was personally decorated by Prigozhin,” writes the website Vaznie istorii.

Also, according to APE-MPE, the mercenary’s wife sent his fellow prisoners a video in which Kisiliev describes how he is. In particular, he says that he lives in the trenches and is on the front lines.

“I’m alive, I wasn’t injured, everything is fine. One of the fifteen survived. All good. God protects us” he says in the video and asks to give half of the money he will get to his mother and to keep the rest to collect more and buy “a new apartment in Krasnodar”.

On November 13, Wagner’s Telegram channel posted a video of the execution of prisoner Yevgeny Nuzin.

In the video it is stated that Nuzin started fighting on the side of Ukraine in September, and that in November he was kidnapped from Kyiv. Nuzin woke up in a basement, where he was told he would be “judged,” he says in the video. After his statements, the video shows someone killing Nuzin by smashing his head with a sledgehammer.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recently claimed to be the founder of Wagner, called the video “an excellent directorial work”. He then asked the attorney general’s office to investigate the involvement of the US Secret Service in Nuzin’s execution.