He had no chance Ilya Bakharev thought joining the Russian army would be a ticket to exoneration. His unit mates tortured him to death. Meduza

Like countless other Russian men, Ilya Bakharev thought joining the war against Ukraine was a path to redemption. Though he wasn t recruited directly from prison, Ilya had a criminal record, and he spoke openly to his wife about his hope that going to war would keep their son from seeing him as just an ex-con. His desire to restore his reputation through military service only grew after a botched attempt to join the Kremlin-controlled mercenary group Redut so he signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry. But Ilya s efforts to curb his fellow soldiers drinking quickly made him enemies within his own unit, and according to multiple eyewitness accounts, he was brutally tortured to death within a few months of deploying to Ukraine. Journalist Lilia Yapparova looked into Ilya s story for the independent journalists cooperative Bereg. Meduza shares an abridged English-language translation of her reporting. 

Warning: The following story contains graphic descriptions of violence.

via meduza.io

Those darn Russians. Always torturing people to death.