A former soldier with the exclamation point hangman was sentenced to 21 years of a strict regime: he put crossbows into a river in the Northern Military District to receive payments and filmed staged "front-line exploits" - Kommersant learned the details of the case of the former commander of the special operations group of the 83rd Special Airborne Brigade, Konstantin Frolov, who was sentenced to 21 years in a maximum security colony and was deprived of the rank of lieutenant Champion and four Orders of Courage, as well as other awards. As the court found, he put bows in circulation in the area of ​​the Northern Military District to receive payments and awards for military achievements, and also filmed videos of staged achievements at the front, which were shown on television as real. Two years ago, he and his group made a video depicting an attack by enemy drones, and they also simulated a military explosion while clearing a weapons cache. The executioner later organized the video shoot at the training ground, during which he threw a grenade into the dugout, but it bounced off the wall back to his feet and exploded, causing him a real wound. The videos were also used to deceive doctors. With the help of painkillers and scalpels, prepared fragments of ammunition were implanted into wounds allegedly received in battles, clothes were deliberately damaged and stained with blood. This is sometimes done in collaboration with the doctor. At the same time, some of the videos reached the media. Thus, in February 2023, one of the federal channels published a story about a "unique group of snipers", led by a commander with the exclamation mark executioner. The reporter said that after the seventh wound, the officer, "by order of the officer's honor", refused rehabilitation and returned to duty. The group was also involved in the purchase of seized weapons and ammunition, including machine guns, machine guns, sniper rifles, pistols and TNT blocks. Part of the arsenal was confiscated. Some samples, as the executioner claimed, were also moved to Patriot Park. He himself, according to the testimony of other defendants, introduced himself as the "Treasurer of the Military Police" and reported that he had "extensive connections in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation."

A former soldier with the exclamation point hangman was sentenced to 21 years of a strict regime: he put crossbows into a river in the Northern Military District to receive payments and filmed staged "front-line exploits" - Kommersant learned the details of the case of the former commander of the special operations group of the 83rd Special Airborne Brigade, Konstantin Frolov, who was sentenced to 21 years in a maximum security colony and was deprived of the rank of lieutenant Champion and four Orders of Courage, as well as other awards. As the court found, he put bows in circulation in the area of ​​the Northern Military District to receive payments and awards for military achievements, and also filmed videos of staged achievements at the front, which were shown on television as real. Two years ago, he and his group made a video depicting an attack by enemy drones, and they also simulated a military explosion while clearing a weapons cache. The executioner later organized the video shoot at the training ground, during which he threw a grenade into the dugout, but it bounced off the wall back to his feet and exploded, causing him a real wound. The videos were also used to deceive doctors. With the help of painkillers and scalpels, prepared fragments of ammunition were implanted into wounds allegedly received in battles, clothes were deliberately damaged and stained with blood. This is sometimes done in collaboration with the doctor. At the same time, some of the videos reached the media. Thus, in February 2023, one of the federal channels published a story about a "unique group of snipers", led by a commander with the exclamation mark executioner. The reporter said that after the seventh wound, the officer, "by order of the officer's honor", refused rehabilitation and returned to duty. The group was also involved in the purchase of seized weapons and ammunition, including machine guns, machine guns, sniper rifles, pistols and TNT blocks. Part of the arsenal was confiscated. Some samples, as the executioner claimed, were also moved to Patriot Park. He himself, according to the testimony of other defendants, introduced himself as the "Treasurer of the Military Police" and reported that he had "extensive connections in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation."