He kept a photo of Hitler and a copy of "Mein Kampf" at home: a Pole posing as a Wagner member was jailed in Britain. Photo

A 49-year-old Pole, Piotr Kucharski, who claimed to be a member of the private military company Wagner and participated in the war against Ukraine, has been sentenced in the UK. He was arrested last year after he threatened people with a knife.

This was reported by The Guardian. Kucharski was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for supporting terrorism.

On October 28, 2023, Kucharski attended an event of the British Viking Society, which reconstructs Viking culture. He appeared there in military clothing with Wagner symbols, waved a dagger, and made a gesture that imitated throat slitting.

According to witnesses, Kucharski told them about his participation in Wagner and fighting against Ukraine, and later confirmed this on social media. The man repeated his claim of belonging to the Wagner PMC in several posts on Facebook and in messages to his contacts.

However, Kucharski explained to the police that he had purchased the Wagner patches and attached them to his clothes to "provoke a reaction" due to differences of opinion about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In his home, police found a photo of Adolf Hitler, a copy of his work Mein Kampf (My Struggle), and other fascist souvenirs. During the sentencing, the judge noted that Kucharski did not realize "the consequences of his words and actions." The court also rejected his explanation that he acted out of "stupid bravado" to provoke a reaction.

Kucharski was sentenced to two and a half years in prison with the next year of extension of the sentence.

Earlier it was reported that in the city of Omsk (Russia), an ex-convict who returned to freedom after fighting against Ukraine beat his pregnant girlfriend to death for breaking a speaker. In the colony, 36-year-old Sergei Kozlov signed a contract with the private military company Wagner, received a medal for courage during the criminal war, and returned to Russia in the summer of 2023.

As previously reported by OBOZ.UA, a monument to Dmytro Tetianenko, a fighter of the Wagner PMC who died in Ukraine, is planned to be erected in the Russian village of Abatske, Tyumen region. The occupier came to the front from a penal colony where he was serving a sentence for the brutal murder of his fellow villager, a father of three.

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