A Russian soldier was arrested after allegedly killing a woman, seriously injuring her husband and trying to kidnap her two daughters in a village near the Ukrainian border, the Russian media reported Monday.
The suspect, Dmitry Stenkin, 39, was put in prior detention to the trial last Friday, according to the Mediazona and Astra media, who cited a press service of military courts. Specific charges against the soldier have not been publicly revealed.
According to the reports, Stenkin broke into the house of Olesya Larina in the Gir’i village of the Kursk region, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) of the Ukrainian border, last Tuesday and attacked it fatally. Larina’s husband suffered gunshot wounds in the arm and chin and remains in a coma induced by Medaxy, according to media reports.
Neighbor Alexander Zuyev said he witnessed Stenkin trying to kidnap the two daughters of Larins, six and 10, before the security guards stopped him in the nearby averages of the Housing Army of the Vocational School. Zuyev said Stenkin seemed to be under the influence of drugs at the time of his arrest.
A photo shared by Larins’s 18 -year -old son, who lives in the city of Kursk, showed what was said to be a bloodied Stenkin with military uniform with his hands tied behind his back.
According to Astra, Stenkin has multiple convictions for serious crimes that date back to 2017 and may have enlisted in the army from prison at some point after January 2025.
Russian officials have not publicly commented on the murder reported by Larina.
The governor of the interim region of Kursk, Alexander Khinshtein, had previously urged residents to avoid returning to cities and towns near the border due to security risks.
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