Among other data, there is correspondence between Demurchiev and Major General Ivan Popov, who was previously the commander of the 58th combined arms army of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation. After criticism of the leadership, he was removed from his post, then accused of fraud in the construction of defensive structures in the Zaporozhye region, and in 2025 he was sentenced to five years in prison.
In correspondence in 2023, Demurchiev and Popov discussed the Russian high command. Popov called various Russian officers “a rag,” “a fool,” “a schmuck,” “a stupid animal,” “a standard of stupidity and idiocy,” “a sandwich of arrogant morons.”
“An army of morons, sycophants and cowardly traitors,” the correspondence says.
Sometimes they discussed simply life topics. Demurchiev wrote to Popov that he wanted to “fuck glamorous girls” with him. Popov responded by asking “not to confuse things.”
After Popov was removed from office, Demurchiev transferred money to him – hundreds of thousands of rubles, for which he, as he himself wrote, “strained the division lads.” In 2024, because of the transfer of money, he was even summoned to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, but he later admitted in conversations that “the hell he sent them” during interrogation. As a result, Demurchiev tried to hush up the matter through Major General Alexander Nilov.
