Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Hundreds of Russian conscripts are reportedly being sent to the front in the Kursk region, with some being forced to sign contracts to join the army as professional soldiers or to go there as punishment for disciplinary offences. ⬇️

2/ "Go to the forest!", which helps Russians evade military service, reports that at least 250 conscripts from St. Petersburg and 90 from Moscow were transferred to the 'counter-terrorist operation' zone. Kaliningrad, Samara, Irkutsk and Naro-Frominsk are also sending conscripts.

3/ Others are reportedly being sent there as a punishment. One woman says that her son has been suffering "terrible hazing" in a unit in Dolgoprudny, Moscow region (see the thread below for more on this long-standing custom of the Russian army).

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1825452760172568940

4/ She says that "now he has been punished for trying to smoke some weed while in the hospital (although the wounded from the Special Military Operation do this openly and bring this nasty stuff)."

5/ "He was immediately "burned", now they want to transfer him, as a violator (although there was no official investigation and testing for the presence of marijuana in urine was carried out with violations) to a unit in the city of Kursk."

6/ The girlfriend of one conscript says that her boyfriend and his comrades were pressured to sign contracts to enable them to be sent to fight in Ukraine, not just within Russia.

7/ "They tried to force them to sign a contract, took them everywhere, and now they're distributing them to hot spots, what should we do? Help, please, this is just a nightmare. They are not told where until the very end, I think it is on purpose."

8/ They are distributed in turns, several people at a time, two went to Kursk, two more today to Bryansk."

Another conscript is being beaten until he signs a contract for long-term military service, according to a friend.

9/ "I have a friend in Kursk now. He was surrounded, but escaped. Now our military has found them, but they are forcing him to sign a contract. They tied up one of the guys and beat him, saying that they would die anyway and it would be better to die in the forest.

10/ "Is there any way to help the guys avoid signing the contract and get my friend transferred out of this zone?"

(This practice of forcibly "giving birth to a contract soldier" is also a well-established one, known from previous accounts.) /end

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1825452778627518735

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