MAD Vladimir Putin freed a murderer who strangled his girlfriend and kept her corpse in a barrel so he could fight in the war against Ukraine.

Evil Alexander Golubev, 24, was serving just three months of his sentence when he was released by a desperate Putin to fight after it was revealed the dictator had lost around 700,000 soldiers.

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The convicted murderer boasted of working as a military pen salesman and “having fun” away from the bloody action on the ground. front line.

Footage shows Golubev at a crime reconstruction showing how he killed his long-time girlfriend Viktoria Kurman, 23, who was a computer graphics artist.

When she disappeared, the killer pretended to be her and sent text messages to her mother, Olga Lishefay.

He partied at his apartment with friends, informing them all that Viktoria had abandoned him.

But after more than a month, Golubev disappeared and stopped sending messages.

Olga, Viktoria’s mother, then became deeply worried and suspicious.

She went to the apartment in Veliky Novgorod with Marina, the mother of the villain Golubev, and a friend of the couple.

They found it in disarray – with a smell that made them miserable, coming from the green plastic barrel on the balcony which had been glazed to provide more living space as part of the apartment.

Sickening footage shows Olga using a knife to open the barrel, cutting several meters of tape used to tightly seal the lid.

Olga said: “I looked inside and saw a black plastic bag covered in white (baking powder).

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“I called the police and explained to me that my daughter had disappeared and that a barrel had been found on the balcony.”

After that, officers arrived, removed the lid and opened the plastic bag.

Olga recalled the trauma, saying she stood nearby and “saw hair“.

She continued: “It was clear that it was Vika (Viktoria) because she had the ends of her hair highlighted.

“It was his hair, I recognized it.”

The cops took away the barrel and the body was confirmed to be his.

Golubev, unemployed, was found and arrested five days later, and at his trial in April he was sentenced to nine and a half years in a strict-regime penal colony.

This is after he fully confesses to killing Viktoria.

He told investigators: “I was afraid she would find out I was cheating on her and at that point I just didn’t know what to do.”

The cold-blooded murderer used his bag strap to strangle her and stuffed a sock in her mouth to “get rid of the wheezing.”

Then he tied her with electrical tape to give her body a more “practical” shape to fit in a barrel used to store food or drink, he confessed.

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Three months later, Viktoria’s mother was shocked to learn that he was no longer in prison and that his whereabouts were now a “state secret.”

But it soon became clear that he had been sent to war as part of Vlad’s crazy plan to free prisoners to fight.

He sent a message to Viktoria’s friend Alexandra, saying he “hoped he would be killed by a missile”, which she said was him pretending to be sorry for having killed the young woman.

Alexandra said: “Honestly, at first I almost felt sorry for him.

“And then he wrote to his friend and said he didn’t care, he was having fun (in the military), he was in a safe, quiet place to do paperwork. “

If he remains alive, Golubev will be released after completing his military service and his murder conviction will be expunged from his criminal record.

Golubev is not the only horrible criminal to be freed by Putin, as the tyrant desperately seeks more soldiers to fight in his bloody and illegal war.

It comes after NATO Leader Mark Rutte said that every week there were “more than 10,000 killed or injured on all sides in Ukraine”, with “more than a million casualties since February 2022”.

The figure suggests Ukraine lost around 300,000 soldiers, while Britain estimates Russian losses at 700,000.

Rutte announced the grim milestone by warning that the 32nd national alliance was not prepared for war.

The former Dutch Prime Minister bluntly stated: “We are not ready for what awaits us in four or five years.

“Danger is heading towards us at full speed. We must not look away.

“We have to face it. What is happening in Ukraine could also happen here.”