Putin's Pardoned "heroes Of The SWO" Had A Shootout With Police Officers On Rublyovka Street
- 4.02.2026, 14:44
And they killed the cabbie.
On the evening of February 3, two men opened fire on police officers in Moscow who were trying to detain them in a case involving the kidnapping and murder of a man in Penza Region, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said. She specified that the shootout took place in a house on Rublevskoye highway - as a result, one of the suspects was killed, the second was detained. Later, Volk said that the attackers also killed a cab driver who gave them a ride to the capital.
The state media published an APB on the suspects - 41-year-old Mikhail Leontiev and 39-year-old Alexei Lanchikov. Both had previous convictions for murder and other serious crimes. According to the source "VChK-OGPU", in 2022 they were recruited in the colonies by the PMC "Wagner" to participate in the war against Ukraine. At the end of their contracts they returned to citizenship, at least one of them received a pardon from President Vladimir Putin. The source specified that it was Leontiev, who was also shot dead by police.
Before being sent to war, he was serving a 23-year sentence for murder in Penza Region Colony No. 5. According to the verdict, in 2014 Leontiev and a friend surnamed Kosolapov shot two people - Maria Lipilina and Ramil Kadyshev - and stole a cell phone, jewelry and a Kia car from them. And some time before that, the defendants robbed a priest. Leontiev's accomplice later committed suicide, reporting the crimes before his death.
Lanchikov before being sent to the front served time in the same Penza colony - in 2014 he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for murder, rape and violent acts of a sexual nature over a girl who was unconscious, "Agency" found out from leaked police reports. At the same time, Lanchikov had been tried several times. In May 2024, he received the status of a combat veteran.
According to the UN, 170,000 convicted Russians who committed violent crimes were recruited to participate in the war in Ukraine. According to Verstka's calculations, during the three years of fighting, the "heroes of the SWO" who returned from the front, killed and maimed at least 750 people. As of February 2025, 378 dead and 376 seriously injured were known.