Conscripts of the Russian armed forces are en masse transferred to contract service and sent to the border with Ukraine. Publications report it “Agency” And “So it goes” with reference to the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers.
The chairman of the board of the organization, Olga Larkina, told the Agency that since the beginning of the week, dozens of mothers have called the organization, who complained that their sons, conscripts, were urgently sent to the Ukrainian border, given bulletproof vests and military weapons.
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Mothers write in the comments in the VKontakte groups that their sons-soldiers, deployed to the border with Ukraine, have stopped communicating. According to Larkina, young people were forced to sign contracts. Those who refuse to sign a contract have their military tickets taken away and stamped, or contracts are signed for them, said the chairman of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers.
“Translate [на контракт] entire regiments, although the guys did not submit any reports for this, did not show any initiative. There are facts of the use of physical violence, beatings of those who refuse to become contract soldiers. Further, complete uncertainty, as their phones are taken away. We’ve had a flurry of calls from scared mothers all over Russia. They cry, they don’t know if their children are alive or healthy. Problems related to the provision of food have already receded into the tenth plan,” Andrei Kurochkin, deputy chairman of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, told Takie Dela.
The organization has information about sending to the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, a soldier from the 752nd motorized rifle regiment in the city of Valuiki, a training military unit in Kovrov, the 3rd motorized rifle division from Boguchar, from the Naro-Fominsk military unit and the Taman division.
Among those who are sent to the border, even those conscripts who were called up only in December 2021 and who have not yet had time to undergo the necessary training.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense previously stated that sending conscripts to war was excluded. By law, they can be sent to the combat zone no earlier than four months after the start of military service.
On the morning of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation in the Donbass to “protect the inhabitants of the region from genocide.” He appealed to the Ukrainian servicemen with an appeal to lay down their arms. Simultaneously with his speech, Ukrainian journalists began inform about explosions in Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Kramatorsk, Berdyansk and other cities and about the use of missiles. Eyewitnesses also report about the beginning of powerful shelling in the Donbass by pro-Russian separatists and that military facilities throughout Ukraine were attacked.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared martial law throughout Ukraine. He confirmed that Russia had struck at the Ukrainian military and border infrastructure.
In connection with the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, statements were made by Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Biden said that “only Russia is responsible for the destruction” that an attack on Ukraine would bring. Boris Johnson noted that Putin “chooses the path of bloodshed and destruction” and promised a strong response from Britain and allies. Stoltenberg called on Russia to immediately stop the “reckless and unprovoked attack.”
