A Russian known as “the black real estate agent” has been released from prison after fighting for six months in the Ukraine as part of the Russian army.
Alexander Tyutin, a 66-year-old real estate agent who had hired hitmen to kill his business partner and family, as well as his own niece, signed up with the Wagner Group and entered Ukraine in June 2022 to fight.
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Six months after joining the group, Tyutin left his service and was released from prison, able to fly to Turkey and reunite with his wife, The Sun reported.
Tyutin was sentenced to 23 years in prison after he paid a hitman $10,000 to execute his business partner Dmitry Zeinalov along with Zeinalov’s pregnant wife and the couple’s children, ages 10 and 14. The hitman used an ax and a machine gun to slaughter the family. .
Alexander Tyutin was jailed in 2021 for 23 years after hiring a hitman to execute a family of four.
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Tyutin then visited the family grave where he reportedly urinated on it.
He tried to hire another hitman to kill his niece for a $100,000 inheritance, offering $9,000 for the contract, but the hitman turned out to be an undercover cop, according to Radar Online.
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Now a free man after his service in Ukraine, Tyutin’s release has sparked fresh criticism of the Wagner Group and its recruitment methods, which have increasingly relied on prisoners to bolster weakened Russian forces.
Wagner Group chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin attends the funeral of Dmitry Menshikov, a Wagner Group fighter who died during a special operation in Ukraine, at the Beloostrovskoye cemetery outside Saint Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, December 24, 2022. (AP Photo)
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The Pentagon recently revealed that it believed Russia had lost more than 100,000 troops since the start of the conflict in Ukraine nearly a year ago.
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Wagner’s boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin recommended Tyutin for the Order of Valor medal for “bravery on the battlefield”, particularly as part of an operation that stormed a fortified settlement. Prigozhin praised Tyutin’s “decisive and skillful actions”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, attends the Victory Day military parade marking the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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But he has had to defend his support for Tyutin along with the other convicted criminals in his service.
“Let me explain the philosophy of inmates participating in the war,” Prigozhin explained. “An inmate killed a family of four. You don’t know and haven’t seen that family, but you feel angry about it.”
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“That inmate went to war and was killed. Or he survived by a miracle, ”Prigozhin continued. “He is a murderer, and in war he is worth three or four or even more dandelion boys, whose milk on the lips is still wet.”
“Among those dandelion children is your son, your father and your husband,” she added. “So analyze it. Would you rather have the killer go to war or your family members?”
“This story is almost certainly part of the public relations campaign led by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, Putin’s chef turned head of his personal squad, the Wagner Group,” Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting, told Fox News. and former DIA intelligence officer. Digital. “On Wednesday, Prigozhin, who has been widely criticized for freeing dangerous criminals, attacked journalists on Wednesday with a verbal tirade, asking if any of them would volunteer to go to Ukraine, or just pee their pants. , which means they’re cowards.”
Koffler continued: “He insisted that your father, brother, son could be those uninitiated children sent to Ukraine and killed. Prigozhin said that Tyutin survived the war only by chance. What does not fit into Prigozhin’s propaganda operation is that Tyutin is not even a professional assassin, he had hired a professional assassin for the assassination he had ordered.”
