Russians Who Refused To Fight In Ukraine Forcibly Sent To Front In Kursk Region
15- 14.08.2024, 13:00
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They were taken by plane from St. Petersburg to Kursk.
Dozens of Russians who refused to fight were forcibly taken by plane from St. Petersburg to Kursk. They were given weapons and are planned to be used in military operations in the region, writes ASTRA.
As relatives of the refusers told the publication, the day before, at least 500 people were taken from the village of Kamenka near St. Petersburg, where several men who refused to fight were held. At the same time, criminal cases have already been opened against some of them for abandoning their unit, while others were awaiting a military commission.
“They took a man with a D category, plus a man of about 70 years old who can barely walk, and another man without an eye…”, the relatives said. According to them, among those who are in the unit are men with health problems, physical and mental.
Relatives of the soldiers explained that their family members were called to line up last Monday and then, without any explanation, taken to the airfield under guard. About 150 people ended up on Tuesday morning 7 km from Kursk at a military training ground, and another 300 people were taken away in an unknown direction.
Relatives are afraid that the refuseniks will be used for “meat” assaults, because “they don't do anything, they don't say anything, everything is quiet.”
“In the morning, my son wrote “they are now dressing us, giving us a machine gun and most likely we will be going into battle”. If, God forbid, something explodes in his head, and he shoots someone, who will be to blame?” ASTRA quotes one of the mothers, whose son is being observed by a psychiatrist after participating in the war.
The day before, mothers of conscripts called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw their sons from the Kursk region. A corresponding petition appeared on the Change.org website. “We, the mothers of conscripts, ask you to remove conscripts from the areas of military action. They have no experience in fighting back, no weapons. <…> Save the lives of soldiers who are not prepared for military action,” says the text of the petition, which was compiled by Oksana Deeva, the mother of a soldier serving in the area of the village of Korenevo.
After the Ukrainian Armed Forces invaded the Kursk region on August 6, the Ukrainian side took conscripts prisoner and published a video of their interrogation. According to the prisoners, there were conscripts at the border guard positions who reported shelling for four days, but the command did not respond to their reports and “abandoned them.” “They ignored us, like, if we die, let it be so,” said one of the prisoners.
Meduza also wrote that the “border cover regiments” consisted of conscripts who were unable to resist the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Relatives of conscripts who were in the Kursk region said that their loved ones took part in battles, were captured, evacuated, or were waiting to be evacuated.
At the same time, a source of the “Agency” in one of the organizations providing legal assistance to the Russian military reported that conscripts who were in the Kursk region at the beginning of the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive remain in their positions.
According to the mothers of two servicemen, the conscripts were declared a combat unit, they have been given combat commands, and the commanders refuse to take them to the rear. These are the soldiers serving in military units located in other regions, who were sent to the Kursk region as part of the assignment. In one case, the servicemen came from the Voronezh region. Also, as reported by the publication “People of Baikal”, conscripts from the Irkutsk region began to be prepared for transfer to the border with Ukraine in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.
At the moment, several dozen conscripts have already disappeared and stopped communicating, Verstka wrote. Meanwhile, the first obituary for a conscript who died in the Kursk region, 22-year-old Nikita Dobrynin, has appeared.
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