Military draft published by Russian President Putin sent a horde of frightened combat-age men fleeing to the border, but even they could not feel the true horror of what was so unlucky to be mobilized and sent to the front lines in Ukraine are facing.
Reports of draft Russians sent to fight with wild training is not enough and “almost unusable“The device has been rampant for weeks, but a new report shows that recruits are pretending to die in battle to save their own lives.
Russian independent store Novaya Gazeta Europe spoke to the wives of three men assigned to Moscow’s 423rd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment in late September. The women, whose names have been changed, said their husbands are now facing with the court for leaving the front lines after being sent into a living nightmare in Ukraine last month.
The men’s training is said to have consisted only of digging trenches at a camp in the Belgorod Oblast forest in Russia before being transferred to the Luhansk region of Ukraine just two weeks later, on October 14. believed to be commanded by two other men. those mobilized — none of them had any combat experience. After the deployment, loved ones from the military then didn’t hear from them until October 26, when the men contacted their desperate wives for help.
A wife of a 24-year-old recruit said her husband’s company was shelled for 12 hours, during which one of the commanders was “torn apart”. The surviving commander ordered a retreat — only to the superior military authorities to order them back to the front. “After they refused to return, they were given new equipment, bulletproof vests, helmets — or court uniforms,” the woman, known as “Irina,” said.
She added that her husband, along with 26 other survivors from his company, are currently hiding in an abandoned house. “Their bank cards are blocked, they have no livelihood, no money, no food, no water,” Irina said. “My husband told me he hadn’t eaten in a few days, and we didn’t know what to do with that.”
Another wife, “Ekaterina,” said her 27-year-old husband received similar training in just digging trenches. He is believed to have been sent to an area of the front in Ukraine, where 76 men were killed in shelling about two weeks before his arrival.
On October 25, Ekaterina said that her husband and his teammates had crashed on their own. “For hours, they just lay on the ground and pretended to be dead for one simple reason: they had no weapons left but machine guns,” Ekaterina said. “And there are mortars against them, drones flying over them, if they even move a finger, then the drones will immediately fly over and destroy them.”
Reports of the dire state of the Kremlin’s mobilized forces came after propagandists in Moscow encouraged the people to die terrible deaths for Putin rather than defeat in the war.
