A convicted rapist and murderer who brutally killed a young mother on her way to work has returned to the streets of Russia after receiving a pardon from President Vladimir Putin in exchange for serving 3 months on the Ukrainian frontline.
Grigoriy Povilaiko, 31, recently returned to his hometown of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, where those who know him wonder how a criminal sentenced to decades in prison in 2022 for a heinous crime has regained his freedom.
Sources told local Telegram news channel VL.ru that Povilaiko had signed a military contract in October 2023 to fight in the war. Typically, contracts offered to Russian prison inmates require them to serve in Ukraine for at least 6 months before being eligible or receiving amnesty.
“Who knows how he went after three days,” the source told the publication. “He might have been injured, of course.”
In August 2021, Povilaiko ambushed 37-year-old Anna Koshulko, a mother of two, in her garage as she was reading on her way to work, and brutally killed her.
Grigoriy Povilaiko, 31, a convicted Russian murderer and rapist, was released after agreeing to serve in the war in Ukraine. Social media/east2west news Anna Koshulko, 37, a married mother of two, was brutally raped, stabbed and beaten to death by Povilaiko in 2021. Social media/east2west news
“He didn’t just kill her. He attacked her with a knife. He raped her, killed her, raped her, and killed her,” the victim’s outraged husband, Alexander Koshulko, told the independent Russian publication Novaya Gazeta.
“He didn’t just take her and strangle her. He was covered in bruises, completely beaten, bleeding, all blue. Just a nightmare. And he screamed – no one came out to help. No one…” added the grieving husband.
Koshulko described the horrifying moment he opened the garage door to find his wife covered in blood, with her underwear missing.
“It was clear that she had been anally raped. There was feces, all covered in blood. He was covered in hematomas, bruises, his hair was pulled out,” Koshulko told the Baza newspaper in November.
Povilaiko was arrested just hours after stealing the murdered woman’s car and heading to the beach with a friend. social media; e2w news
After killing the woman, Povilaiko stole Koshulko’s blue Hyundai Creta, drove home to change his blood-stained t-shirt, and then picked up his friends and headed to the beach for a beer.
He was arrested a few hours later, after crashing into a police car and fighting.
In April 2022, Povilaiko was found guilty of five counts of murder, rape, sexual assault, theft and using violence against government officials, and was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
But after only a year in prison, Povilaiko received an offer from the Russian Ministry of Defense to join the war effort, following in the footsteps of what is believed to be thousands of prisoners who have agreed to fight on the front lines for the prospect. to gain their freedom, should they survive.
Povilaiko, pictured with his ex-partner and their daughter, served only one year of his 24-year prison sentence. Social media/east2west news Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted amnesty to thousands of criminals, including violent offenders, in exchange for their military service in Ukraine. via REUTERS
When Alexander Koshulko learned of the early release of his wife’s killer, he frantically wrote to several military officials, including Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, demanding that he be thrown back into prison.
“I have started sounding the alarm everywhere,” he told Novaya Gazeta last month. “If he dies like a dog, it doesn’t matter. To hell with him — no one will miss him. But if he comes back? God willing, Povilaiko got some injuries. They will release him in two months.”
To Koshulko’s dismay, that’s exactly what happened.
“He had to be locked up in prison for half his life but he came home, a special ops hero, and got all the benefits and disabilities. [payments],” said the widower. “I just don’t have words, I’m hysterical. How can this happen? My wife is not alive, but this creature is.”
This is not the first time a violent criminal has been pardoned by Putin for fighting in Ukraine.
Povilaiko only spent 3 months fighting in Ukraine, before returning to the city of Vladivostok. Social media/east2west news
It was reported in November that Denis Gorin, 44, a serial killer and cannibal, is back on the streets in the remote Sakhalin province, despite being sentenced to 22 years in prison for stabbing a man to death and eating his flesh.
Gorin, who killed at least four people – but possibly as many as 13 – returned home after apparently being injured during his tour of duty in Ukraine.
News of Gorin’s release comes just days after it was revealed Putin had pardoned 33-year-old Nikolai Ogolobyak, a self-confessed Satanist who took part in the ritual murders of four teenagers – two of whom were beheaded and some of whom were cannibalized.
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