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Ukraine War Veteran Kills Woman After Taking Her Hostage in Irkutsk, Local Charity Says

Summary by The Moscow Times
A Ukraine war veteran killed a woman in the Siberian city of Irkutsk after taking her hostage, the head of a local women’s shelter where the incident took place said early Wednesday.

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In the Radushny neighbourhood in Irkutsk, a military officer who had returned from Ukraine held a woman hostage for more than five hours and then killed her.

·Riga, Latvia
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In Irkutsk, a gunman took hostage a resident of a crisis centre for victims of domestic violence fo...

A member of the war against Ukraine, who returned from the front, took hostage in the Radutzhny neighbourhood and then strangled his wife and seven-year-old son in a crisis centre where he was also sheltered, was reported to be close to the Silovists by the Baza television channel and the President of the Alexander Soboliv Foundation. According to Soboliv, a man for several months "terrorized his wife." "It was more than just beating, it was a r…

A resident of Irkutska took hostage and killed a subsidiary of the Osserve charity, said the head of the organization, Alexander Soboliv. He said that the suspect had previously "terrorized his wife with a seven-year-old son".

·Moscow, Russian Federation
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Mediazona broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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