On October 21, 2024, at the Ilyinsky training ground in Russia's Primorsky Krai, a lieutenant from the 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment removed the safety from his AK-12 and fired a burst of rounds into a line of soldiers during a weapons training class. One round struck 19-year-old conscript Artem Antonov in the head, killing him instantly. According to investigative outlet iStories, Antonov's relatives believe he was targeted because he had refused to sign a contract to be deployed to Russia's Kursk border region, where his unit was headed. Before his death, Antonov told friends in a since-deleted social media post that his commanders had been beating him with iron rods on his arms and neck and forcing him onto eight straight days of duty to pressure him into signing. When his body was returned to his family two days later, they found bruises covering it in addition to the gunshot wound. Officials publicly identified the shooter as 22-year-old Lieutenant Alexander Yemelyanov, who was charged and scheduled for trial in February 2025 — until Antonov's mother was informed there would be no trial after all, because Yemelyanov had enlisted to fight in Ukraine, and Russian law effectively lets deploying soldiers escape prosecution.
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Commentary: Shoot an unarmed 19-year-old in the head, get charged with murder, then simply volunteer for the front and watch the case disappear — that's not military justice, that's a loophole with a rifle attached.
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