Prisoner Roman Aleksantsev died near Bakhmut, sentenced to 22 years for murder and recruited in the colony by PMC Wagner. According to ForPost, his death was announced by the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozzhaev.
The murderer was buried with honors, and Razvozzhaev stated that he "was convicted of a grave crime, but redeemed him with blood," and called him a hero.
In October 2018, the city court of Sevastopol sentenced Aleksantsev to 22 years in prison in a strict regime colony for the murder of taxi driver Yuri Shteimets. The jury found Aleksantsev guilty on three counts of the crime: murder and theft of funds, theft and arson of a car.
According to investigators, on August 2, 2017, Aleksantsev called a taxi through the dispatch service. His friend, with whom they lived in the same area, came to the call. When the taxi was in a deserted place, Aleksantsev stabbed Shteimets at least three times in the chest, which caused him to die on the spot. Then he took 120 thousand rubles from the driver, loaded the body into the trunk and drove around the city in his car for several more hours to buy drugs. After that, he burned the car along with the body in a forest near the village of Kuibyshevo, Bakhchisarai district.
This case received wide publicity in the Crimea, the body of Shteymets was searched for several days. In Sevastopol, for the first time, a jury trial was held.