Dmitry Zelensky was pardoned in June, after fighting for 6 months in Ukraine.
A Russian convicted murderer who killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder — and who shares a last name with the president of Ukraine — has been pardoned for fighting in the war.
A year later, Zelensky was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison — but he served less than half of his term before being recruited in November 2022 by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary group to fight in Ukraine, according to Russian news outlets. Galina Zelenskaya said she believes her son’s pardon was well-deserved because he has shown remorse for his actions.
On June 21, 2018, Melekhina called her father to tell him that she was on her way to Perm. She then vanished without a trace. “I became angry. I wanted to calmed her down,” Zelensky told investigators. “She was screaming. I grabbed her by the throat from behind, put her in a chokehold… I dragged her while continuing to restrain her and tightening my grip on her throat. She stopped breathing.”
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