The ensign was found guilty of bullying a conscript soldier of the 95th separate airborne assault brigade. In March 2020, a warrant officer who held the position of a technician in an engineering company of an engineering support group in the vicinity of the village of Perlyavka, Zhytomyr region, decided to instruct the personnel. During an engineering class, he called a group of conscripts and told them about the military tradition, according to which recruits should taste the TNT stick. One of the servicemen swallowed a piece of an explosive, which led to acute poisoning with trinitrotoluene.