Serial killer murdered and ate four teens in Satanic ritual freed for sinister reason

Satanist serial killer Nikolai Ogolobyak was part of a chilling sect responsible for the horror deaths of four teenage students.

The Russian murderer was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security prison in Russian for his horrific crimes, which saw he part of a group that kidnapped, killed, dismembered and then ate the teenagers.

However, just 13 years into his sentence, Ogolobyak was among the dangerous criminals to be freed by Russian President Vladimit Putin so he could be enlisted to fight in Ukraine.

Back in 2010 Ogolobyak was charged with murder, robbery, and desecrating a corpse. However, in 2023 he was pardoned as Russia’s military “ramped up” its war efforts.

Ogolobya’s cult, formed in 2006 by then-15-year-old Konstantin Klyk Baranov, ate their victims' organs at Ogolobyak's apartment in 2008, according to court documents cited by Russian publication 76.ru.

The sect carried out "bloody rituals" for several years, killing dogs and cats for sacrifices and using their blood to initiate new members. By 2008, the violence had escalated and eight members killed and dismembered four Yaroslavl college students.

The defendants received sentences ranging from eight to 20 years in prison. Ogolobyak was given 20 years in a maximum security colony.

Russia has recruited extensively from prisons for months as the war against Ukraine rages on. The British Ministry of Defense said in May 2023 that Russia's military had "ramped up" its recruitment of prison inmates but it could not break even with the rate of casualties in Ukraine.

Ogolobyak’s father said his son served for six months with Russia's notorious "Storm Z" unit, according to 76.ru. Storm Z was used to carry out local pushes on the front lines in Ukraine.

"This is true. He served there for six months in Storm Z. After being wounded, he is disabled. He is walking, but the wound was serious," Ogolobyak's father said, adding it is unlikely that he will be sent to fight in Ukraine again due to the extent of his injuries.

Ogolobyak reportedly returned from Ukraine on November 2, 2023 and then lived with his mother. The news comes after the Kremlin received backlash for Putin's pardoning of Vladislav Kanyus, a man convicted in the murder of his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend.

He was sentenced last July to 17 years in a maximum-security prison over the murder of Vera Pekhteleva in Kemerovo, Siberia, in 2020.

Prisoners "atone with blood for crimes on the battlefield, in assault brigades, under bullets, under shells," Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in 2023.

The mother of the murdered woman said in June that she found out Kanyus had gone to Ukraine to fight in the war. On November 8, human rights activist Alena Popova said Putin had issued a pardon to Kanyus.

At least 17 people who committed high-profile murders—including Kanyus—were issued pardons to fight in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, according to Agentstvo, a Russian investigative site launched in 2021.

The publication said the killers all took part in the war in Ukraine, and some have committed crimes again upon their return to Russia.