Vladimir Putin has been slammed by an FSB intelligence officer father whose daughter’s “sick” rapists and killers were freed from jail to fight in the dictator’s war against Ukraine. Kristina Prikhodko, 19, was horrifically sexually abused by the men before she was strangled. Despite this, killers Sergei Yulin, 35, and Maxim Ovchinnikov, 33, were both exempted from their jail terms and sent to fight. They had been sentenced to 22 and 18 years respectively for raping and murdering the student. Her naked body was wrapped in clingfilm, put inside a zip-up bag then stashed in a car boot after she was strangled to death.
The outraged father - a career officer in Putin’s secret services - said: “The penal colony management promised me that they would never go to the [war]. I am not afraid, I want to shout to the whole country so that our fighters know who they will be side by side with. These are sick people.”.
It is exceptionally rare - and dangerous - for secret services officers to speak out criticising the Putin regime. A relative said that as an FSB officer, "even his connections did not help” keep the sexually-motivated killers in jail amid Putin’s desperation for men to fight in his war which has already seen hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Kristina’s remains were found seven years ago on snow-covered ground dumped close to a reservoir on the River Ob near Novosibirsk, a city in Siberia. The pair were sentenced in 2018, but it is only in recent days Kristina's father discovered they had been freed to fight in the bloody war.
