A Russian convicted murderer who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder has been pardoned after fighting against Ukraine, his mother said.

The mother of Dmitry Zelensky told the Russian media news outlet 59.RU that her son was pardoned after serving less than half of his sentence.

Zelensky, a veteran of the Second Chechen War, confessed to the 2018 murder of his 27-year-old girlfriend, Tatiana Melekhina, in 2019, 59.RU reported.

He admitted to strangling her to death after a quarrel, before disposing of her body in a horrific way to try to cover up his tracks, the media outlet said.

According to 59.RU, Zelensky told investigators during an interrogation that he dismembered her body, processed it in a meat grinder, collected the bones in three bags, and threw them into the river.

  • @InvaderDJ
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    1101 year ago

    There are so many wild things about that story. Assuming it is all true, he strangled his girlfriend, dismembered her, ran her through a meat grinder and disposed of the bones in three different bags. He got only 11 years. He was pardoned for being part of the Russian Army invading Ukraine. He only served in Ukraine for six months before retiring.

    All that is insane. A murder with an already hilariously light sentence is pardoned by being on the front lines for six months?

    • Bipta
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      311 year ago

      Nobody in Russian leadership expect any of the criminals to last that long.

      • @Aux
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        41 year ago

        He confessed.

    • andrew_bidlaw
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      31 year ago

      I’ve read it in a russian source and it said he murdered her because she insulted some other guy, his friend. Probs a vet too.