The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court sentenced serviceman Vitaly Prisukhin to 12 years in a high-security penal colony in a case of attempted murder of two women, the court's press service reported.
He was found guilty under articles of attempted murder of two people and illegal entry into a dwelling. In addition to the actual sentence, the serviceman was fined 30 thousand rubles and stripped of state awards: medals «For Bravery» I and II degree, and the Order of St. George's distinction — «St. George's Cross» IV degree.
According to the investigation, on September 11, 2024, Prisukhin, while under the influence of drugs, attacked two women unknown to him. He encountered the first victim in one of the city's entrances and beat her with a piece of concrete — the man struck blows including to the woman's head. When she began to scream, he fled the scene of the crime.
Trying to hide in one of the private houses, he came across the homeowner. The serviceman took a knife and attacked the woman, and when she knocked the knife out of his hands, Prisukhin took a skewer, pierced her lung, and ran away.
As noted by the publication «7×7»*, Prisukhin was a participant in the war in Ukraine and received awards for it.
In 2011, Prisukhin was sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony in a case of theft and murder of two people. According to the investigation, he met a woman on the street and went to her partner's home, where the company began to drink. The men quarreled out of jealousy, and Prisukhin stabbed his drinking companion three times, then killed the woman so she would not report the crime. Before leaving, the man took a bag and phone from the apartment.
* Recognized in Russia as a «foreign agent».