Said the mother of a Russian sailor sentenced to 12.5 years for the rape and attempted murder of a woman. Immediately after his sentence he enlisted in the war and died in Ukraine.
The woman believes that the victim attacked her son first, and he responded because she spoke out against the war.
Konstantin Chistyakov, a 26-year-old ex-officer of the Black Sea Fleet, was killed in the war in Ukraine. He was previously sentenced to 12 and a half years for raping and assaulting a 23-year-old resident of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region. Chistyakov’s death was first reported by school No. 4 of Veliky Ustyug, of which he was a graduate, and then his mother Elena Chistyakova confirmed the information in a conversation with ASTRA. She said that Konstantin’s body had in transportation from Rostov for “the third week”.
“Your son was killed in the line of duty during a special military operation. He gave his life as a hero, selflessly defending the peaceful and free future of our country. A true defender and a true patriot who remained faithful to the oath and the fatherland to the very end,” Elena Chistyakova quotes a telegram about her son’s death from the governor of the Vologda region in a conversation with an ASTRA journalist.
As previously reported by ASTRA, In May 2023, 24-year-old at that time, Lieutenant Konstantin Chistyakov served on the Black Sea Fleet frigate Admiral Grigorovich in Baltiysk. On the night of May 13-14, 2023, according to the report (available to the editorial staff) of the operational duty control center of military unit 20515 (on the territory of Baltiysk, the frigate is part of the area of responsibility of this military unit), Lieutenant Chistyakov went to a local karaoke cafe, and then met a girl on the street. According to the document, Chistyakov “offered her to have sexual intercourse, which was refused. After that, he used violent actions against the citizen, forcibly dragging her into the bushes near the railway tracks. The woman resisted and asked for help. To stop the resistance, he struck several blows with a stone in the head area.”
On February 14, 2024, the Baltic Garrison Military Court sentenced Chistyakov to 12 years and 6 months in prison, to be served in a high-security penal colony, and to be stripped of his military rank. This was reported by the local press, and the verdict of ASTRA was also confirmed by Chistyakov’s mother. He was found guilty of rape, attempted murder and attempted violence. At the same time, Konstantin’s mother has a different version of events. She believes that the injured girl was the first to attack her son.
“She wasn’t raped. We [have] biological expertise. They’re negative, that they didn’t find her cells in him, that they didn’t find his cells in her. The girl also wrote a refusal of hospitalization on the very first day. And she did the examination in a day. Not when it happened, but a day later. She lived with a young man who constantly beat her,” says Elena Chistyakova. When asked why the court eventually found her son guilty, including of rape, the mother replies that military courts specifically give maximum sentences in order to send convicts to the war.
“She came up to him, and they started talking about their opinions about war. He’s for it, of course. And she began to tell him something else. And the first one hit him on the head with a stone, we also have it recorded,” says Elena. At the same time, the woman did not provide documents to the ASTRA editorial board. The mother adds that Konstantin was also beaten by “friends of the girl’s boyfriend” who filmed the video from the spot. They also “falsified all the data”. “My son needed an ambulance that day in the first place, not the girl,” concludes Elena.
The woman says that after the verdict, her son voluntarily went to his “freedom”: “First of all, he already participated in his own. Because he was in Syria. <…> He said from childhood, “I will be a military man, I will defend Russia.”
When asked if she believes that participating in the war with Ukraine justifies the death of her son, Elena replied: “He gave his whole life for our country, for our motherland. I am proud of my son.” And she hung up.
