Overview

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned Nikolai Ogolobyak, a man convicted of ritualistic murders and cannibalism, after he served in Ukraine for six months in the notorious 'Storm Z' unit.
• Ogolobyak was part of a Satanic cult that killed four teenagers in 2008, beheading two of them and consuming their organs.
• Originally sentenced to 20 years in prison, Ogolobyak was released early to fight in Ukraine, where he was seriously wounded.
• Ogolobyak is one of many Russian convicts pardoned in exchange for service on the front lines in Ukraine.
• He returned from Ukraine on November 2 and is currently living with his mother in the city of Yaroslavl near Moscow.