Angarsk maniac declared his “dream” to go to war

Mikhail Popkov, a former policeman from Angarsk, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of more than 80 women, said in an interview with “Vesti-Irkutsk” that his dream is to join the army.

In the same interview, the so-called Angarsky maniac reported that he had previously confessed to two more murders, after which he was transferred from Mordovia to Irkutsk, reports Sibir.Realii.

As Popkov said, right now he is not going to join the army, because “this is not a computer toy, and this is not an art book.” “It’s just that after a warm room they will find themselves in a cold trench, how many people will be enough there?” – said the convicted murderer. But when winter passes, “the most frosty”, he would “not hesitate to agree” to go to war with Ukraine, although he doubts that he will be taken. According to the former policeman, he has a sought-after military accounting specialty.

Popkov did not mention Wagner’s PMC, which recruits prisoners in Russian colonies to participate in the war.

• Mikhail Popkov committed crimes from 1992 to 2010 in the Irkutsk Region. Until 1998, he served in the internal affairs bodies. He was detained in 2012 in Vladivostok.
• In 2015, Popkov was found guilty of the murders of 22 women and sentenced to life imprisonment. On December 10, 2018, the court of the Irkutsk Region found him guilty of another 59 murders and sentenced him to a second life term.
• Earlier, Popkov also confessed to two murders after he had already received two life sentences. For these crimes, he was additionally sentenced to 9.8 years in a penal colony.
• In the summer of last year, it became known that the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, travels to Russian colonies and recruits prisoners of war, including those convicted of serious crimes, including murder. They are promised a pardon six months after participating in hostilities.
• Prigozhin recently announced his return home after pardoning the first group of recruited prisoners. As the journalists of the BBC Russian Service and the publication “Agentstvo” established, among them were those convicted of robberies, murders, and drug trafficking.
• The names of several former prisoners who died in Ukraine are also known. One of them, buried with honors, in particular, was convicted of murdering his own mother.