1/ Mobilised Russian soldiers have been imprisoned, starved, beaten, stripped naked and threatened with being shot and thrown into a mass grave if they do not return to the front line, according to independent media outlet ASTRA. Thread below ⬇️
2/ ASTRA previously reported that the men, who had fled the front line after a heavy defeat near Lyman, were imprisoned in a basement after they refused to return to the front. The men were subsequently transferred to a partly destroyed prison.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1584835244980854784
3/ The men were being held at Perevalsk, Luhansk region, but have now been taken to a new and so far unknown detention facility. They are reported to have been severely mistreated by their commanders.
ASTRA reports:
ASTRA reports:
4/ "Most of the illegally detained men were deceived, threatened and tortured into a new basement camp for refuseniks, the exact location of which is currently unknown.
5/ This was reported to ASTRA by sources in Luhansk region, as well as relatives of the mobilized men who are being held in the new basement right now. ASTRA has a picture taken by the prisoners at the location.
6/ Apparently, there are now several such basements for those who refuse to fight. We are not publishing the photo for the safety of the Russian prisoners.
7/ "We will shoot you and throw you into the same pit and tell your relatives that you are missing."
These are the words of the commanders quoted in a conversation with ASTRA by the relatives of several servicemen who are currently in one of the basements in the Luhansk region.
These are the words of the commanders quoted in a conversation with ASTRA by the relatives of several servicemen who are currently in one of the basements in the Luhansk region.
8/ "This is how they are trying to bring back to the front line those mobilised who have written reports of refusal to participate in the Special Military Operation. When they realised that persuasion was not working, the commanders began to threaten reprisals.
9/ The names and ranks of the commanders were not known and they did not introduce themselves. The other day the captives got in touch and reported that they had not been fed for several days," relatives said to ASTRA.
10/ The wife of a mobilised man, who was imprisoned in October in a former prison in Perevalsk, the location of which ASTRA had earlier identified, said that her husband had also been taken to a new place of detention after the disbandment of that prison.
11/ On 3 November all the guys called their relatives and said they had been told that they were going to be picked up and taken home, after which my husband called me five hours later and said they had been cheated.
12/ The Sibirtsevo brigade commander (who took their reports of refusal and who brought them to Perevalsk), loaded them into a car and said 'either to the front or to the basement'. They said they would not go to war.
13/ They were told they would sit in a pit and that they were supposedly going to the place where they had fought originally.
Yesterday my husband called me, the connection was bad and he said that they did not go as far as Staromaiors'ke because of the shelling.
Yesterday my husband called me, the connection was bad and he said that they did not go as far as Staromaiors'ke because of the shelling.
14/ They were in some basement somewhere between Staromaiors'ke and Rozivka. They let him out to the toilet and he somehow found a way to call. He said that there were a lot of them there. Food or not, what are the conditions there, we do not know.
15/ The commanders do not introduce themselves," a woman told ASTRA.
The wife of another mobilized man reported that the men in the basement were completely undressed.
The wife of another mobilized man reported that the men in the basement were completely undressed.
15/ "My husband and 80 other men are sitting in the basement. They were stripped naked in order to take away their phones; one man has miraculously kept his phone. They were beaten. They are fed very badly. They are forced to go to the front like meat, but the guys refuse.
16/ All of them have written refusal reports", said the wife of a mobilised man.
The mother of another mobilised man told ASTRA that her son was in the same situation.
The mother of another mobilised man told ASTRA that her son was in the same situation.
17/ "On 9 October, he got in touch and said that they were in the village of Staromaiors'ke and were taking part in combat operations. He and his other comrades are not marked for mobilisation. On 12 October, he wrote a report of a mobilisation violation.
18/ After that my son and other mobilised people were taken away in an unknown direction. For two days they were kept in a basement of the town or village of Yurievsk or Yurievka. The officers who were holding them did not give their names.
19/ They tried to force them back to the front line. Two days later they were released and sent to Fedorovka. On 4 November, one of them contacted us and said they were already being held in some other cellar. We applied to all the authorities, but there was no answer.
20/ I don't know where he is or what happened to him. It's a cry from the heart," the mother of one of the mobilized men told ASTRA. /end
(Thread seems to have broken, it continues below.)
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1588933344695586816?s=20&t=xFARt7wtQ2eVMwC5kCVMnQ
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