A Russian killer who used a meat grinder to dispose of his lover’s body has been exonerated and freed from prison by Vladimir Putin as a reward for fighting in the war against Ukraine.
Dmitry Zelensky, 41, who has the same surname as the Ukrainian president, was serving an 11-year sentence in a high-security penal colony for strangling university graduate Tatiana Melekhina, 27, to death before dismembering her body.
A law enforcement source said the exceptional cruelty of the murder had shocked even hardened detectives.
The source said that he didn’t just dismember her body, he separated the meat and bones and made mincemeat. He then washed this mincemeat down the toilet into the sewage system and threw the bones into the river. This was his plan to hide the murder.
A huge search was launched for the missing Tatiana after her father reported her disappearance.
Zelensky, from Perm, finally admitted to killing her after an argument. He’d concealed from his lover that he was married with a daughter.
When his 44-year-old wife, also called Tatiana found out, she said that she didn’t know what to say, and that she didn’t know he could be so cruel.
The victim’s sister Oksana expressed outrage that the family were not told of Zelensky’s release. She said at his trial, it was declared that they would be notified of where he was, and his movements, but they weren’t told anything.
She said that her father had written to ask for details, but no one had answered them.
His pardon and freedom were confirmed by Zelensky’s mother, Galina. It’s not known where he fought in the war.
His mother, Galina said that her son went to war for many reasons and that he wanted to atone for what he’d done.
When Zelensky confessed to killing his lover, it emerged that he’d promised her a fresh start in a big city.
They drove from their remote Russian town of Gubakha, but she never arrived in the regional capital of Perm.
In fact, married father Zelensky had no intention of moving permanently to Perm.
Tatiana was reported missing by her father after she failed to call him to say she’d arrived.
She’d promised him before leaving on the 250-mile drive that she would call him as soon as she got to the city.
Russians have voiced fears about the number of hardened criminals permitted to fight for six months for Vladimir Putin, then pardoned and allowed to return to normal life, amid fears of a new crime wave.
At the start of the year, Vladimir Putin started handing out medals to reward violent convicts who were recruited from Russian prisons for their courageous fighting in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defence announced in March that thousands of Russian prisoners who fought for the private mercenary army Wagner would be pardoned and freed.
Some would say that there was something extremely wrong with the Russians, but we shouldn’t tarnish all Russians because they have a leader who is the devil himself.
This is Vladimir Putin who seems to make the rules as he goes along, and I’m actually not surprised that brutality and atrocities are accepted, even glorified, instead of condemned.
Clearly, Vladimir Putin is as mad as a box of frogs, and this just highlights what Putin is all about.
Velensky was married with a child as well, he should have got life, and when I say life, I mean life, but this is Russia after all!
Only an evil man like Vladimir Putin could pardon such a crime, which only makes him a monster as well, and we should never feel empathy towards a nation that wants to destroy someone else. Killing is killing, it’s nothing more than genocide, and nothing good will come out of this war, and Vladimir Putin is scraping the barrel for the lowest of the low.
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