A Russian rapist who was released from prison by the Kremlin for taking part in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will serve another sentence at the front after raping a 17-year-old girl at knifepoint.
Yakov Paramonov, 36, attacked a 17-year-old student at knifepoint near garages in Saransk, western Russia.
A Russian court said that after attacking the girl, he made her urinate so he could… “Washing himself” after the brutal attack. He was sentenced to ten years in prison in a penal colony after being found guilty of ‘rape and violent sexual acts against a minor’.
But he is expected to be pardoned again soon in exchange for another stint on Putin’s invasion front.
He spent several months in the Wagner Group, formerly led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, before losing his leg in battle, for which he received a beating. of awards for ‘exemplary performance in combat missions and impeccable service to the Fatherland’.
Yakov Paramonov, 36 (pictured), attacked a 17-year-old student at knifepoint near garages in Saransk, western Russia.
Paramonov worked for the Wagner group (pictured)
A Russian court said that after attacking the girl, he made her urinate so he could “wash himself” after the brutal assault.
He was praised for his “altruism and courage, a difficult path of combat, burned by battles, soaked in blood and sweat.”
He was jailed in 2017 for a series of robberies in which he robbed women of their jewelry or forced them to give away their necklaces, bracelets and earrings.
In one such case, he threatened to kill a 24-year-old woman if she did not have sex with him. He was convicted of violent sexual intercourse, but received a full pardon from the Russian dictator for agreeing to fight in the war.
Although the Wagner Group was the first to recruit prisoners for the brutal invasion of Ukraine, the policy was apparently adopted by the Kremlin in December 2023.
They were often grouped into so-called Storm-Z units and treated as cannon fodder.
Wagner’s former boss Prigozhin is known to have visited prisons across Russia to promise convicted criminals that they would be allowed to return home without conviction if they managed to survive six months of fighting against Ukraine.
A member of the Storm-Z unit told the US-funded Sever Realii website that Kremlin military recruiters promised inmates salaries of 205,000 rubles (about $2,000 or £1,700) a month, a payment of 3 million rubles ($31,000 or £26,000) per injury and 5 million rubles ($52,000 or £43,000) to be paid to the recruit’s relatives if he died.
But prisoners were often sent into a “total meat grinder” without being properly equipped or even given information about what was happening at the front.
Several soldiers who had been released from prison to fight on Putin’s front, only to return and commit various crimes, have been released again.
Former Wagner fighter Ivan Rossomakhin, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the heinous rape and murder of 85-year-old Yulia Buiskikh, has been allowed to return to the front, the victim’s family said.
“The grandmother’s killer has escaped punishment for his crime – once again – and has gone to fight in the war,” Anna Pekareva, Yulia Byuskikh’s granddaughter, told the BBC.
Anna says her governor notified the family that Rossomakhin was released on August 19, just a week after his sentence began.
“My first reaction was horror. I read the forensic reports and I know what this person did to my grandmother. It’s monstrous that he was released again,” says Anna, adding: “The fact that this is happening in the 21st century… there are no words to describe what is happening!”
