Konovalov Sergei Nikolaevich

Konovalov Sergei Nikolayevich is a colonel, Head of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Directorate for Volgograd Oblast (since March 18, 2024), Head of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Directorate for Kursk Oblast (from August 2021 to March 2024).

According to open registries, as Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for Volgograd Oblast, being a representative of authority and an official exercising general leadership over FSIN units and institutions in Volgograd Oblast, and being aware of the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, he deliberately, in violation of the norms of the said Convention, and with the aim of inflicting physical and moral suffering on servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, issued a criminal order to subordinate officials and internal service military personnel for the systematic cruel treatment of prisoners of war, which manifested in inflicting bodily harm, injuries, and mutilations upon them, as well as humiliating their personal dignity.