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15/ "For example, one of my comrades was wounded, and when applying for insurance payments, they told him: "How did you get wounded, being in a training unit deep in the rear?" By the New Year - 2023 - our battalion was worn out by half, in just a month. And by April, out of 550 people, there were about 150 left." 6 comments
17/ The army caught up with him in February 2024 and took him to an army prison. "There were always 30-40 people there. Once a week a plane would fly out and pick up those who agreed to go to war. They set conditions: either you go to a real prison or you go to war. But you still go to war after the trial. That is, they get you on a hook: you are put on trial, and at the trial you ask, please, I won’t do this anymore, I want to fight." 18/ "And the judge gives you a suspended sentence instead of a real one. And you can't get away from this hook, because if you escape, your suspended sentence will turn into a real one, plus they'll add on time for escaping. And you'll immediately go to jail for ten years. I spent three months there. They tried to put me on board three times and send me to war. I refused, demanded that they conduct a VVK [military medical commission]." 19/ "They conducted it, and it turned out that I was miraculously cured. They do it like this: if your index finger moves, you can pull the trigger - you're fit! I myself witnessed how they declared a man with a half-torn-off foot to be fit. Because there were huge losses, there weren't enough people." Alexander was determined not to go back to war and remained in prison. Instead, he and his fellow detainees were conscripted illegally to help build a holiday home for the regimental commander. 20/ He took the opportunity to escape. "I once overheard a major who was driving us to the construction site say: we'll do it anyway, so you'll go to war. I took this into account, because I was already mentally prepared to go to prison for a few years — but not to go to war, to kill people. Friends transferred money to me. I climbed over the fence — and went. Then I got on a plane and flew to St. Petersburg." |
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16/ Alexander was dropped off across the border in the Belgorod region but was left to seek his own medical treatment. He hired a taxi with several other wounded soldiers and went to Moscow. However, he decided not to return to the army and remained in hiding for a year.