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1/ A headless Russian man was rated as fit for military service by no fewer than five doctors working for the Smolensk military registration and enlistment office. Not surprisingly, relatives are now demanding that the doctors be investigated for fraud. ⬇️ Image
2/ The Russian Telegram channel Baza reports on the bizarre case of Alexander L., who was found decapitated on a railway line in October 2021. Investigators found a strange anomaly when his personnel files were obtained from the local military enlistment office.
3/ The files showed that the day after his death, Alexander L. underwent a military medical commission. He supposedly complained about his health and was given an EEG and allergy tests. Two examination reports were drawn up based on the tests, signed by five doctors.
4/ The doctors all rated Alexander L. as partially fit for military service, somehow missing the fact that he had no head and was, in fact, entirely dead.
5/ Baza reports: "The relatives of the deceased appealed to the prosecutor's office with a demand to check the doctors' actions for compliance with the law, but have been waiting for a decision from the investigation for a year.
6/ "Justice Ministry experts have repeatedly tried to establish the age of signatures and seals in medical documents, but have still not been able to determine their exact dates.

Interestingly, according to relatives, before Alexander's death, he did not even receive summonses.
7/ "Earlier, in 2019 and 2021, there were also suspicious entries in the guy's documents: at different periods, he allegedly was simultaneously undergoing examination at the Smolensk Regional Psychoneurological Clinical Dispensary and in other hospitals."
8/ The case highlights an issue that has been complained about virtually since the start of mobilisation in the war in Ukraine – the widespread falsification of military-medical examinations, in which even people with serious health conditions have been rated fit for service.
9/ It's unusual for this kind of fraud to be exposed quite so blatantly, but it does at least highlight how medical examinations are simply being faked outright to get men into the Russian army regardless of their actual fitness. /end

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