War doesn't only create heroes - it creates monsters within its own ranks. Ukraine has been shaken by a scandal in which soldiers from the "155" brigade are accused of kidnapping and killing two brothers, civilians from the Kyiv region. The story is so dark that even in the war's fourth year it still manages to shock.

According to what has been reported, the brothers were taken from a family home on the night between June 27 and 28, moved to the Poltava region and killed there. The group was led by Stanislav Luchanov, the brigade commander, who left his post without authorization and is now on the run. Nine soldiers have been detained and charged with unlawful deprivation of liberty and murder.

Supreme commander Oleksandr Syrskyi ordered an investigation by the military security service and the police. The General Staff said all identified participants have been charged. But the mere fact that something like this happened - that people in their own country's uniform kidnap and kill their own civilians - reveals something no investigation can undo.

War legitimizes weapons and violence, and then some people lose the line between enemy and neighbor. This isn't a story about the front - it's a story about what war does to people far behind it. The Balkans remember their own wars and know that the most terrifying crimes are often not committed by the enemy from outside, but by someone in the same uniform who stopped seeing the human across from him. The question isn't only who will answer for it, but how many such cases stay unreported under the cover of war.