Murderer and rapist freed after 16 months of sentence to fight in Ukraine
Georgy Povilayko. Photo: social media Georgy Povilayko, a convicted murderer and rapist from Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, has been released from prison to fight in Ukraine after serving only 16 months of his 24-year sentence. In August 2021, Povilayko brutally raped and murdered Anna Koshulko, a mother of two children, in a parking garage as she was getting ready to leave for work. “She kept screaming, but no one came to help. No one,” her husband Alexander told Novaya Gazeta.