Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ More charges are reported to have been brought against a Russian colonel who is accused of extorting, robbing, beating, and murdering his men, including his own second-in-command. ⬇️

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1932145282395025671

2/ Colonel Anton Necherda, of the 1428th Motorised Rifle Regiment, was arrested in the Kursk region of Russia in the spring of 2025 after years of complaints from soldiers and their relatives about criminal abuses in his unit.

3/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, he now faces several new charges of abuse of office. Earlier in August 2025, the 2nd Western District Military Court rejected an appeal by his defence to release him from pre-trial detention.

4/ Necherda is accused of systematically extorting money from his subordinates, beating and torturing them, and even personally murdering them. He is said to have sent numerous 'inconvenient' soldiers to their deaths in unsupported assaults.

5/ His alleged victims included his own second in command, Lt Col S.V. Filipchuk, who was killed 10 minutes after being sent by Necherda to a frontline position in Vovchansk after confronting his commander about his abuses.

6/ It's relatively unusual for senior Russian officers to face a prosecution of this sort. As the thread below discusses, in most cases they are practically immune from being prosecuted for even the most severe abuses. /end

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1955894839439954076

Source:
t.me/rucriminalinfo…