Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Commanders in Russia's 80th Guards Tank Regiment are reported to be systematically abusing their men, including beatings, extortion, imprisonment, and murder. A soldier from the regiment recorded a video describing the situation before his imminent execution. ⬇️

2/ Valery Aleksandrovich Glyzin of the 80th Guards Tank Regiment (military unit 87441), which has recently been fighting near Pokrovsk, recorded a video accusing his commanders of crimes. He says that his own execution had been ordered in retaliation for writing a complaint.

3/ Glyzin says that he signed an army contract on 26 September 2024 in Chebarkul in the Chelyabinsk region. He was being treated in a hospital in Brianka for an unspecified ailment and was due to be sent to the rear for a military-medical commission (VVK) to evaluate his fitness.

4/ Instead, he says, he was sent to the front line for complaining about the illegal actions of his company commander, Dmitry 'Kemer' Kemerov:

5/ "I wrote complaints to everyone about the company commander, so I was lying in the medical battalion, on Monday they were supposed to take me to the VVK, they put me in category “G” [unfit for service].

6/ "They found out that I was writing complaints, they immediately took me to the front."

Glyzin says that he sent an appeal to Vladimir Putin, but within a few days his commanders found out and had him pulled out of the hospital and all of his documents were confiscated.

7/ He accuses Kemer of having given an order for him to be 'reset', or executed, on arrival at the front:

"I ask you, in the event of my death, to conduct an investigation. Call sign "Kemer", he violates the law."

8/ "I ask you to consider my complaint and I also fear for my life, for my own, as well as for the lives of my fellow soldiers.

"I ask you to help me get out of here as soon as possible, because there is a mission coming up soon and I may be zeroed out from my [own] weapon."

9/ The same commander has been accused of other abuses. In January 2025, a video emerged – shown at the top of this thread – of soldiers being beaten with a wooden board after returning from hospital, apparently for treatment for substance abuse.

10/ In February, the mother of Andrey Andreyevich Bykov recorded a video asking for assistance after her son was extorted by Kemer and his deputy, Mikhail Dudukov. Bykov was wounded, but Kemer and Dudukov demanded half of his injury compensation money.

11/ Bykov's mother Tatyana says that her son refused, so his commanders regularly beat and mocked him. He sustained further injuries from the beatings and was taken to hospital, from where he tried to escape. He was caught by the military police and taken back to his unit.

12/ She says that Bykov bought a car with the compensation money, but his commanders demanded that they give it to them. To add further injury, he contracted hepatitis – which has likely gone untreated – while in the hospital recovering from the beatings.

13/ Another unnamed soldier from the regiment recorded a video showing the injuries inflicted during a beating by Kemer, which he says are done for fun. "Well, this is how they treat us," he says. "Whenever they want, that’s how they warm up."

14/ The victims go untreated and are imprisoned in basements, according to the soldier. "Here the kidneys fail, and they don’t care about medicine, they just lock them in the ground, in basements."

15/ According to another report, Kemer's abuses are being covered up by the commander of the regiment's assault detachment, Guards Captain Peter Ilkhom Yakovlevich, call sign "Shark". He is said to have extorted money to evacuate wounded and dead soldiers.

16/ Relatives have reported that conscripts attached to the regiment have been forced to sign full contracts so that they can be sent to Ukraine, or their signatures have simply been forged. The regiment's acting chief of staff, D.V. Postnov, is said to be under investigation.

17/ Numerous complaints of forgery were made against several army units, including the 80th Guards Tank Regiment. Although the prosecutor's office demanded the annulment of the contracts, the division's command refused. In the meantime, several conscripts were killed in action.

18/ The regiment has also been accused of sending badly wounded men into assaults. A soldier with the regiment says in a video: "Captain Nikolaev doesn't even want to listen to this. He immediately starts shouting and insulting. And so it is with all our fighters."

19/ "They twist everyone's arms and bring them here to the military police, wounded, on crutches, with broken arms, they send everyone behind the ribbon [to the front line]."

20/ The soldiers say they are being forcibly sent to the front line with unhealed serious injuries and contagious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis:

"I didn’t go through the VVK on purpose, because I have HIV."

21/ "I got liver hepatitis there, my left kidney doesn’t work, it’s failing. What should I do? Help us all! Everyone here is without legs, someone is on crutches, someone is without eyes. And they are sending us on board."

22/ Seriously injured soldiers are locked up in barracks and their movements restricted, with discharges ignored.

"We can't do anything here. They won't let us out, they keep us locked up, march us in formation under the guard of military police to the canteen and back." /end

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