From Birthday Horror to War Scams — Inside Russia’s Crime Wave

In this episode of From Russia with Crime, we uncover a series of shocking cases that reveal how violence and exploitation are spreading in modern Russia. A young woman is stabbed 12 times by her ex-boyfriend on her birthday in an elite Moscow apartment. A serviceman is detained for a brutal sexual assault. Fake lawyers scam families of missing soldiers, turning grief into profit. And in Podolsk, a wounded fighter is betrayed by his own wife and left without money or home. These stories are not isolated — they show a growing pattern of vulnerability, impunity, and moral collapse around those connected to the war. Real people, real crimes, and a system that often fails to protect them.