‘Expect more violent crime’ Russian state legal scholar issues rare warning that veterans returning from Ukraine pose a growing public safety threat

‘Expect more violent crime’ Russian state legal scholar issues rare warning that veterans returning from Ukraine pose a growing public safety threat

The war in Ukraine has begun to influence Russia’s crime rates, and the situation promises to grow worse in the coming years, including more violent crimes. This is the conclusion presented in a recent article by Villiy Maslov, an associate professor at the Internal Affairs Ministry’s Ural Law Institute in Yekaterinburg. The legal paper represents “a rare instance of an insider within the system analyzing the war’s criminal ramifications,” write…