"Igor has been mentally ill since childhood." One of the suspects in the murder of six people in Derevyannoye was convicted under five articles of the Criminal Code and may have fought in Storm Z.
Igor Sofonov - one of the suspects in the murder of six people in Karelia Wooden could have served not in the Wagner PMC, but in the Storm Z unit of the Russian Ministry of Education. This is the assumption пappeared on the Karelia.news website.
"It's safe to assume he began his military training back in October of last year. He most likely left for the SVO zone at the end of last year. On December 19, 2022, he published a post titled, 'Well, that's it. I'm off. The heat's on. It'll all be Russia/Karelia!!!' The uniform in the photos is very basic, typical for our army. No Wagnerian flair. Sofonov's avatar features the logo of the Storm unit. In some posts, he posts videos of the Storm unit at work, captioning them, 'Our guys.'" — the publication wrote after analyzing the page Karel Sofonov on VKontakte.
The page also contains “philosophical” statements such as: “You are all so wrong when you think you have time”, “Living in the present, don’t forget the past… Don’t repeat mistakes!”.
The articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation under which he served his sentence were indeed not repeated: 105 (murder), 158 (theft), 161 (robbery), 162 (robbery), 228 (acquisition, storage, transportation, production, processing of narcotics).
В aboutjudgment news of the arrest of both suspects (the accomplice is Maxim Bochkarev) Sofonov's acquaintances recalled his school years: "Igor has been mentally ill since childhood."
Нlet's rememberOn the night of August 1, two houses in Derevyannoye caught fire. Six people were later found murdered inside: a father and son in the first, and three men and a woman in the second. All were found with stab wounds. It is known that at the same time, Sofronov and Bochkarev were "celebrating" their return from the war zone in Ukraine.
Photo: from VK page