A Repeat Offender From Chelyabinsk Surrendered To The AFU In The First Battle

• 13.02.2026, 8:29

The Russian served 26 of his 46 years.

Soldiers of the 46th Brigade captured a recidivist from Chelyabinsk who traded 26 years in prison for the front in the first battle.

The video of a conversation with him published on the channel of the 46th Independent Aeromobile Podolsk Brigade.

In the footage, the 46-year-old man admits that he spent most of his life behind bars - he served 26 of his 46 years in prison.

And now, hoping for a clean slate and freedom, he voluntarily signed a contract, but his actual combat experience has been disastrously short.

The Russian system has once again used a prisoner as a disposable resource: A man was thrown to the front lines without proper training. As a consequence, the occupant's "career" ended before it began - during his first combat outing he found himself in the hands of Ukrainian paratroopers.

"His story is yet another example of how the Russian system throws people with a criminal past into the war, for whom this 'mobilization' becomes not a path to freedom, but another circle in an unsuccessful life," Ukrainian defenders wrote.