A Russian military recruitment billboard reading, ‘Heroes are not born, they are made’, in Ulan-Ude, Russia in this 2023 file photo. Recruiting convicts for its army has given Russia a manpower advantage. But it is backfiring in tragic ways when former inmates are pardoned and return home to commit new crimes. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
VIKTOR Savvinov had already been imprisoned several times for various crimes – including robbery, vehicle theft and assault – when he murdered a female drinking companion during a quarrel in 2020, stabbing her in the chest with four knives.
A court in Russia’s Siberian region of Yakutia sentenced him to 11 years in a maximum-security prison.
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