Russian Commander Ordered Occupier To Shoot His Fellow Soldiers In The Legs

The subordinate refused to do this and ended up in prison.

A Russian contract soldier from Naro-Fominsk ended up in an illegal basement for “refuseniks” in Zaitsevo in the “LPR” together with three fellow soldiers. The reason was an appeal to the prosecutor's office regarding the illegal actions of the commanders. Now they themselves are under threat of criminal cases for “failure to comply with orders.”

The wife of a serviceman from Naro-Fominsk, Dmitry [name changed — edit.], who serves in military unit 91701 423 motorized rifle regiment of the 4th Guards Tank Division, told ASTRA that the commander of the assault detachment with the call sign “Luna” set up minefields for those who wanted to return from a combat mission.

On September 12, “Luna” sent Anna's husband to storm Stelmakhovka in the “LPR”. When he set out on a mission, he found three fellow soldiers with shrapnel wounds in a trench and reported this to “Luna”. According to Dmitry, the commander told him: “Let them go out as they want and without EW cover.”

A day later, “Luna” himself showed up at the positions. He said that many soldiers were retreating and that Dmitry needed to open fire on them. He refused. “Then shoot them in the legs, and let them crawl out of here wounded,” “Luna” answered him. Dmitry did not carry out this order either. Another day later, “Luna” informed all Russian groups that were carrying out a combat mission that he personally installed a tripwire and “mined the retreat passage, even for those wounded.”

On September 17, Dmitry returned to the forest, where his fellow soldiers were beaten by the group leader with the call sign “Kizlyar”. He sent the two of them to a concrete pillbox in the middle of a field, dug into the ground to a depth of 4 meters, where a gas pipe runs. At that time, 8 soldiers were already sitting there. Two days later, a mortar was fired in this area, but even after that, the soldiers were not released from the basement. Dmitry sat there for 5 days. All this time, the prisoners slept on bare concrete and used bottles to urinate.

On September 22, Dmitry and Junior Lieutenant Alexei were released from the basement. The military — two officers — and two privates were lined up and read a report on their failure to comply with an order in the presence of an “interrogator” with the call sign “Biely”. After that, they were asked if they were ready to go on a mission. They answered in the positive.

The man spent 5 days after being in the basement in the medical company, simultaneously digging a dugout for the commanders, where they decided to equip a “gym” for themselves. Then he and his fellow soldiers were sent to an illegal basement in Zaitsevo, and from there they were assigned to another military unit.

On October 7, Dmitry told the Starobelsk prosecutor that he wanted to testify against Luna and Kizlyar, adding that he feared for his life and health. “Later it turned out that the deputy commander for political affairs of the Lednik assault squad was a former judge, and the Starobelsk prosecutor were classmates, and my husband began to worry that they would not move forward with this case and would try to hush it all up,” says Anna. A month later, on November 7, the prosecutor's assistant summoned Dmitry and his three colleagues for interrogation. After that, they stopped communicating with their loved ones. Anna learned that her husband was being held in Zaitsevo from a soldier who came out of that basement and saw her husband there. At the military unit, they told the woman that her husband was there for “failure to comply with orders.”

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