Volgograd murderer and Wagnerite Melkonyan's sentence has been slightly increased. He wants to go to war again. 

Arsen Melkonyan appealed The court increased the fine from 150,000 to 250,000 rubles, but the prison term—three years and two months in a penal colony—remained unchanged.

NeMoskva reported on this criminal story. In the fall of 2020, after an argument in a parent chat room at a Volgograd school, Arsen Melkonyan decided to continue Offline showdown: he struck the father of one of the girls, Roman Grebenyuk, several times on the head, after which he ended up in intensive care and died a week later. 

The court sentenced Arsen Melkonyan to 11 years in a maximum security penal colony, but a few months later he was discovered to be part of the Wagner PMC, and in April 2023 came back home with a certificate of pardon. 

However, Melkonyan soon found himself behind bars again for threatening a judge. After the verdict, he told reporters that he intended to appeal the verdict and return to the war in Ukraine. 

The appeal didn't work out, but will they let me fight?

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