Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A man from Crimea is in hiding after, he says, he was forced by two of Russia's notoriously corrupt police officers to sign a military contract, give them his enlistment bonus and marry a 'black widow' fictitiously to get compensation money for his death.

2/ Ex-convict 35-year-old Sergei Zhukov from Stary Krym in Crimea says that he was was drinking beer on a bench in Mikhaylovka when two police officers approached and detained him. They threatened to "find drugs on him" and have him jailed unless he signed a military contract.

3/ Zhukov, who has no living relatives, says that they told him. "You're an orphan, you have no one. We'll bury you, and the rest of the money will go to our needs... Naturally, I refused. They started hitting me in the ribs and back."

4/ The officers took him to a registry office in Mikhaylovka, where he was made to marry 53-year-old Elena Podkolzina on 4 June 2024. Zhukov's passport confirms the date of the 'wedding' and Podkolzina's identity. Her relationship with the police officers is unknown.

5/ The Russian news outlet ASTRA asked her how long they had been together before getting married. "Elena did not answer right away. After thinking, she said, “A long time.”" She admits that he was forced to sign the contract under pressure after he “got into a fight.”

6/ Zhukov was taken away by the military, but managed to escape. "I was not trained in anything. I do not want to fight. I laid down my arms and just ran away," he says. Elena is currently waiting for his death money. She says: "Maybe he will show up, maybe not.”

7/ Zhukov's enlistment bonus was confiscated by the police officers. "When I signed the contract, I received a payment, the governor’s or something like that, I don’t know… 300,000 rubles [$3,061]. I only saw about 20,000 [$204] maybe, that’s all, no more."

8/ "And they just took the rest for themselves.”

He is currently hiding in an attic in an undisclosed location, likely still in Ukraine. “Once again, I don't want to fight. And I don't even know how. It's just a matter of going to certain death. You know?

9/ "Hungry, cold, all the time. They don't even feed you. They send you to the positions. No food, nothing at all. Good thing it rained, at least I had some rainwater. That's it. I just don’t know who to even turn to, what to do next...” /end

Source:
t.me/astrapress/680…