A Russian veteran of the war in Ukraine allegedly killed a Chechen man at a bus stop in the city of Dzerzhinsk, in central Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, in the early hours of 1 February, regional media outlet nn.ru reported on Friday.

Gruesome footage of the incident appears to show the aggressor approach a man sitting at a bus stop in the city’s Lenin Square and stab him in the chest. The wounded man is then seen to collapse to the ground almost immediately. The veteran then proceeds to stab him a further seven times.

Telegram channel Baza said the attack came after the two men got into a verbal disagreement. The deceased has been named as Abubakar Umaev, who was 55. The alleged murderer is a 45-year-old repeat offender who was granted an early release from prison to join an assault brigade fighting in Ukraine.

Military investigators have opened a criminal case into the incident and the suspected assailant has been taken into police custody, though he has not yet been named.

By September 2024, Russian soldiers returning from the war in Ukraine were responsible for killing at least 242 people, and inflicted life-threatening injuries on 227 others, according to investigative journalism outlet Verstka.

In October alone, a Russian veteran who allegedly killed his friend with a chair before going to bed was taken into custody, while another stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in front of her daughter.