In St. Petersburg, a former Wagner PMC mercenary was detained for shooting

On the evening of August 27, local residents reported the sounds of shooting to the police at the Rzhevsky training ground in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the city. Security forces who arrived at the scene detained three men, including former Wagner PMC mercenary Yuri Novikov. A pistol and a machine gun were confiscated from them. about this The local publication 47news writes .

According to him, two of the three detainees were soon released, and a report was drawn up against Novikov for petty hooliganism. The pistol seized from him turned out to be cold, and the AKS 74U assault rifle was sent for examination. Novikov also had two horns with cartridges on him. In this regard, the police are deciding on the possible initiation of a case of illegal weapons trafficking.

In 2018, Yuri Novikov was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a murder he committed in 2016 in St. Petersburg. In 2019, he began serving his sentence, and after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he was recruited into the Wagner PMC. Having fought, Novikov was released in the summer of 2022.

As 47news writes, Novikov explained his behavior by saying that he was very worried about the death of the founder of the Wagner PMC, Evgeniy Prigozhin, and by firing from a machine gun he expressed respect for him.

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