Russian serviceman accused of torture of Ukrainian POWs killed in car blast in Tula Oblast

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A car carrying Russian serviceman Roman Syromyatnikov exploded while driving through Novomoskovsk in Tula Oblast on October 2, according to the monitoring Telegram channel Exilenova+, which said streets were blocked off as security services worked the scene.

A second Telegram channel, VChK-OGPU, identified the dead man as Syromyatnikov, a veteran of the 51st Regiment's air assault company who had reportedly been placed on a wanted list by Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office. A local obituary described him more gently, as a teacher and writer devoted to youth patriotic education.

Ukraine's Myrotvorets database tells a different story, alleging Syromyatnikov tortured Ukrainian POWs at Correctional Colony No. 1 and describing him as showing exceptional cruelty and sadism. He had taught safety classes before the war, signed up with the Defense Ministry afterward, was wounded by a drone in 2024, and returned home to Tula Oblast, where his car apparently found him anyway.

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A man teaches safety class for years, then goes off to a war and ends up on a wanted list for cruelty to prisoners, and comes home to a car that blows up on a quiet street. Nobody official will ever say who lit the fuse, and nobody official has to, because the pattern speaks plenty loud on its own. Tula Oblast is getting to be a bad place to park.

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