Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Numerous Russian soldiers who were transferred to a Luhansk-based unit as a punishment are reported to have "disappeared en masse without trace" after only a few days. Commanders are said to be refusing to tell relatives anything about what has happened to their loved ones. ⬇️

2/ ASTRA reports that wives and mothers of soldiers attached to the 123rd Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 40463) have appealed to Vladimir Putin to help them find their missing relatives, who they say have gone missing in unexplained circumstances.

3/ The missing men include:

"— Anton Golubov. Transferred to the unit on April 29, last in touch on May 1. Has been missing since May 11.
— Nikita Kim. Went on a combat mission on September 6, went missing on the 7th.

4/ "— Mobilised Dmitry Sagin. Sent to an assault instead of to the hospital on July 13. Disappeared on July 14.
— Mir Kokoyev. Arrived at the unit on August 17, last contacted his relatives on August 20. Officially listed as missing in action since September 3.

5/ "— Aleksey Pushkarsky, father of many children. Went on a mission on September 10, disappeared without a trace on the 18th.
— Danil Kiryukhin. Illegally transferred to this military unit on July 26. Missing in action since August 3.

6/ "— Dmitry Muravyov. Sent to military unit 40463 after 2 weeks of training, on July 18. Since July 31, Dmitry's status is missing in action."

7/ ASTRA reports: "Relatives of the missing are not given any information, and most of those who contacted him do not even have notifications that their relatives are missing."

8/ "At the same time, some women claim that their husbands and sons were sent to unit 40463 either illegally or as "punishment". Thus, Mir Kokoyev was transferred there as a “penalty soldier” after he demanded a vacation, which he should have been given last year.

9/ "Most of the women are told by anonymous representatives of the unit, hiding under nicknames on Telegram, that their loved ones stopped communicating after a drone attack.

10/ "When a relative of Mir Kokoyev asked how the man disappeared, she was told that he might have “stayed drinking tea in a neighbouring dugout,” and when she asked for evacuation, she was told that she could pull the soldier out herself.

11/ "“The wounded are also not evacuated – only if the soldier himself reached the zero point [Russian positions]... At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense still does not know that my brother is missing,” says the sister of the missing Dmitry Muravyov.

12/ "Evacuations are not being carried out even in those settlements that the Russian Ministry of Defence reported control over - for example, Berestove, where another serviceman, Maxim Startsev, went missing. ...

13/ "According to the wives, the commander of the 1st Motorised Rifle Brigade is believed to be a soldier with the call sign "Cap". For the assaults after which the soldiers go missing en masse – the [commanders] are called "Greedy" and "Golden".

14/ "Relatives know the full name of only the unit's deputy political officer - Vitaly Bugayev.

Relatives of the soldiers of the same military unit who went missing in 2022 have already written a petition addressed to Putin.

15/ "In it, they demanded 'an investigation into the fact of concealment of information by the command of the military unit about our loved ones and to find out their fate.'"

Source:
t.me/astrapress/668…