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Putin war hero, the ‘Executioner,’ exposed as ringleader of $2.5M scam that had his Russian elite troops shoot him, each other to get paid
New York Post ^ | Aug 23, 2025 | Gabrielle Fahmy

Posted on 08/24/2025 4:17:32 AM PDT by tlozo

One of Russia’s most highly decorated heroes in the war with Ukraine instructed his troops to intentionally shoot him to sit out of combat and collect a fat paycheck, according to investigators — who also found his alleged heroics were completely bogus.

Lt. Col. Konstantin Frolov — nicknamed the “Executioner” for his reputation as a highly skilled sniper — was identified as the mastermind behind the massive military scam where he instructed 35 officers and soldiers in Russia’s elite sniper unit, the prestigious 83rd Air Assault Brigade, to deliberately fire at him and each other, the probe recently concluded, according to Russian newspaper Kommersant.

In return, the troops pocketed nearly $2.5 million in total from the Kremlin for their wounds, the investigation found.

But that was just the tip of the iceberg in exposing the embellished mystique behind Frolov’s military record — including the killing of dozens of Ukrainian soldiers and claims that he had been injured on seven occasions during the war, the outlet reported.

The 39-year-old military leader had been featured prominently as a darling of state media, like when he appeared in a video shared by the Russian Defense Ministry last year to hail soldiers fighting in Putin’s more than three-year-old war in Ukraine

“Since childhood, duty and honor have not been empty words for me,” Frolov claimed in the 2024 video. “I always wanted to be a military man, and I became one.”

In another televised segment, Frolov told a grandiose story about rescuing — and even adopting — a young girl wounded by Ukrainian shelling, a tale now believed to be pure fiction.

“I picked her up and carried her, and she said, ‘uncle, my savior, you’re bleeding’. I looked down, and saw that I was covered in blood,”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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“‘The Executioner’ is a sniper,” the official account for the Defense Ministry proudly wrote on Telegram. “He does not want to return home without a victory".


1 posted on 08/24/2025 4:17:32 AM PDT by tlozo
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2 posted on 08/24/2025 4:32:45 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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Nothing about this story surprises. From fraud and fragging in Vietnam so long ago (remember William John Crum?), to our “famous” John Kerry who rose to even run for the US Presidency, to today's “stolen valor” Senator Blumenthal and much more, this sort of such is part of the fabric of generations of men everywhere.
3 posted on 08/24/2025 4:47:46 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Nothing say “hero” more than a selfie


4 posted on 08/24/2025 5:02:51 AM PDT by blitz128
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Vatnik Soup Episode 262 - Chat Bowes

Moscow-based Irish propagandist working for RT -caught numerous times posting falsified images, including one purporting to be of tattooed Ukrainian Nazis doing the Nazi salute, which was actually of American neonazis in a prison.
5 posted on 08/24/2025 5:11:47 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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It is an odd photo isn’t it, the kind of selfie that guys in their first week of basic might take of their new look.


6 posted on 08/24/2025 5:23:04 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB

Irish troll: Sees Ukraine & a large, nuclear-armed eastern neighbor that has violent, imperialist, history of conquest against it, a language they don't respect & says "No parallels here, those are the good guys in all this"

7 posted on 08/24/2025 5:23:15 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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Russians are tremendous liars. It seems like an ability they take pride in. Who can tell or get away with the biggest lie. A military full of drunks and liars things are starting to make sense why they suck at fighting wars


8 posted on 08/24/2025 6:23:50 AM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance! )
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Ivan Prestonovich posts garbage again.


9 posted on 08/24/2025 7:53:50 AM PDT by Negan
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Russians appear to be very... stupid.


10 posted on 08/24/2025 2:38:29 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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