Former Hero of Russia Irek Magasumov, sentenced to 11 years for the murder of a girl, has returned to the SVO.

Two Tatarstan media outlets, the official Tatar-inform news agency and the BUSINESS Online publication, reported this, citing their sources.

Magasumov was convicted Magasumov was sentenced to 11 years in a maximum-security penal colony on June 26, 2024. According to Tatar-inform, he returned to the front lines on July 19. BUSINESS Online clarifies that Magasumov returned to his unit as a battalion commander. The publication writes that he "agreed to the sentence and legally went to the front."

A serviceman was accused of murdering an 18-year-old resident. LuganskHe was stripped of his title of Hero of Russia, but retained his military rank of lieutenant colonel. He received the Hero's star from Putin in August 2023, and nine days later, Magasumov was detained on suspicion of murder. His sentence was handed down by a military court in the so-called "LPR."

After the end of the trial, Magasumov's wife Transmitted his words that "No matter how this situation ends, he will return to the SVO, because his guys are there - they started together and must finish together."

Magasumov was born in Tatarstan in the city of Mamadysh, served in a military unit in the Kemerovo region, then fought in Ukraine. Official media of Tatarstan wrote, that they were trying to denigrate his “good name as a Hero of Russia” and supported him until the very end.