I just froze. Next to Milonov was Terekhin, Vladislav Terekhin. The man who helped my investigation.

This is a particularly valuable commodity; they don’t go as prostitutes. They said they don’t deal with prostitutes — they’re interested in their maintenance. That’s when they look for a girl aged 15–16, she has to be pure, flexible, a virgin. After that, this girl is introduced to a client — usually a billionaire, of which there are plenty in Moscow. What the ‘maintenance’ means: the girl is bought a gym membership, provided with living expenses, even a driver, enormous sums of money — the income is split 50×50 with the manager.

In the Telegram chat ‘Search for Missing Servicemen,’ which has 127 thousand members, he, as an administrator, posts identical messages — listing height, shoe size, and detailed descriptions of tattoos of soldiers whose belongings have not yet been returned to their families. Under some of these messages, an update later appears: ‘Identified.’