Three Russian crime bosses killed in war in Ukraine

This was reported by the Bellingcat investigative group.

According to journalists' reports, three Russian criminal bosses - 59-year-old Sergei Maksimenko, 55-year-old Andrey Berezhnykh and 55-year-old Igor Kusk - were liquidated at the Ukrainian front. They were recruited by the Wagner PMC.

All three characters served time in prisons for assault and murder of innocent people. However, they were buried with honors, as "heroes.

For example, Andrei Berezhnykh formed a gang that operated from 1994 to 2011, and they carried out a large number of contract murders and other crimes

Sergei Maksimenko headed a criminal group called "Olympia" in the city of Penza. He also had a record of murder, assault and racketeering.

Igor Kusk had his own gang, the "Kuskovskis". In 2004, Kusk and his group were accused of murdering two directors of the Kazan-based construction company Tatsantekhmontazh, which employed more than 1,000 people at its peak.

All three perpetrators died last winter.