Verstka's service reached a collection of secret information from the ministry, which shows that over a 1000 soldiers have been detained throughout Russia over the past period for voluntary leaving units.
No more than 10 of them have been arrested. The remainder was formally released on bail, but was actually handed over to military unit commanders, military prosecutors' staff, military commandant or gendarmerie.
"For the self-voluntarily any are immediately taken to the front to send to the storm, others may marinate in pits (soldiers “ rot” in trenches) and makeshift prisons. They're being forced to sign the assault order. They can besides be sold to another commanders who will throw them on the front, like meat," said Verska, who describes the brutal realities of the Russian army.
“First down and then they are sent to hot spots”
A Russian service interviewer adds that criminal cases for voluntary leave of the unit are not redeemed, but the investigation in them is suspended. Formally, everything takes place at the request of the command that requests that the investigation be suspended.
This information was confirmed by Artem Kłyg's lawyer “The Movement of Consciously Refusing Service”.
"They invented specified a way to bring those who voluntarily leave their units back into the war zone," he said.
About returning to the front and sending fugitives to storm troops told Verstka respective soldiers on the front line.
“Those who flee come back and immediately send them to assault troops. First down (the trench) and then move them to hot spots. From below the military police someway deliver them to the front line where they are already standing dam branches, no retreat“ The soldier from the Kharkiv area explained in an interview with the Russian service.
At the same time, many soldiers who voluntarily leave their units halt utilizing the biometric facial designation strategy “The Sphere”. This occurs mainly in Moscow, but besides in railway stations in another cities, specified as Voronezh and Krasnodar.
The scale of desertion from the Russian army grows
An investigation of an independent service The Insider shows what different ways soldiers in Putin's army must sometimes hotel to to escape from the front line.
“ Many (including myself) hoped that the end of the war was near. No 1 wants to participate. 90 percent want to go — Says erstwhile soldier Paul, who fled Putin's army and received asylum in Finland, and now tells about the tragic realities of the Russian army.
Vladimir Aleksandrov/Anadol Agency via Getty Images / Contributor / Getty ImagesRussians during military training (picture)
The Get Lost organization, which helps Russian soldiers escape, cites respective successful cases of Russian soldiers escaping straight from the front. any of them are very unusual. Grigorij Sverdlin, the founder of this activist group, tells the communicative of a soldier who contacted a charity, successfully defected and helped 50 of his peers.
— We utilized UAZ minivans, specified as those utilized by military medics. We placed red cross marks in the windows and drove six or 8 people each. They wrapped their body parts in bloody bandages, and any even traveled in black plastic bags, pretending to be dead, says the activist, reporting the communicative of the soldier.
According to independent organizations, the number of desertions from the Russian army continues to increase.
