She asked him to turn down the TV. Instead, he stabbed her to death in front of her four children. This episode tells the story of 24-year-old Elizaveta Ovchinnikova, a mother of four, murdered by her partner and SVO veteran Alexey Malyshenko in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Elizaveta had tried to escape. She had scars from his previous attacks. She had warned her friends. But no one stopped him. Now four children are left without a mother—and the war continues to echo inside Russian homes. Content warning: domestic violence, femicide, child trauma.
She asked him to turn down the TV. Instead, he stabbed her to death in front of her four children. This episode tells the story of 24-year-old Elizaveta Ovchinnikova, a mother of four, murdered by her partner and SVO veteran Alexey Malyshenko in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Elizaveta had tried to escape. She had scars from his previous attacks. She had warned her friends. But no one stopped him. Now four children are left without a mother—and the war continues to echo inside Russian homes. Content warning: domestic violence, femicide, child trauma.