A Russian woman has told how she was brutally beaten by a “hero” of the war in Ukraine

In the city of Atkarsk in Russia (Saratov region), a military man who returned from the war in Ukraine conducted the so-called “Courage Lesson” and then brutally beat a man and a woman. It happened six months ago, and the woman recently told reporters some details about the attack.

Irina Matasova still hasn’t fully recovered from the beating. He said the attacker literally tore his flesh in the places where he was hit, and the swelling under his eye still hasn’t gone away.

The Russian independent publication Astra wrote that in November 2023, 42-year-old junior lieutenant Dmitry Kiryukhin, who had returned from Ukraine on leave, conducted a so-called “Lesson in Courage” at a local school, and later some time attacked his neighbor in the courtyard of his house and beat him until he lost consciousness. The “military hero” was drunk.

The wife of the beaten man ran to help her husband, and the “veteran” also beat her. The woman even suggested that her husband pretend to be dead so that the drunk military man would stop.

It was reported that a case of attempted murder was first opened against Kiryukhin, and then the charges were reclassified as “petty hooliganism.”

Victims fear he will return to war and remain unpunished.

It was previously reported that on May 17, an eight-year-old girl was found murdered in the Aksai district of the Rostov region. Later, tow truck driver Ruslan Shingirei was detained on suspicion of murdering her – he admitted that he offered to give her a lift, took her to a deserted area and killed her. According to media reports, after that he also raped the dead child.