Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian soldier with cancer and two broken legs was sent to the front lines in Ukraine to fight in a wheelchair, even though his chronic condition meant that he was ineligible to serve. After his cancer was deemed terminal, he was sent home to die. ⬇️

https://x.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1906217468407746838

2/ 42-year-old Vitaly Anisimov suffered from a rare and usually fatal condition, gastric arteriovenous malformation, for which he had a complex operation in 2019. Despite still being chronically unwell, in 2022 he was abruptly mobilised into the Russian army.

3/ His daughter Anastasia said that despite the family's protests, the recruitment officers told him, "We don't care about your diagnoses - according to our papers, you are suitable." He fell a few days later and broke both his legs. Despite this he was declared fit.

4/ Anisimov was taken away in a wheelchair to serve on the front line in a 'fetching and serving' capacity. However, it soon turned out that the treatment he had been given for his broken legs had been botched, risking their amputation. He was hospitalised in January 2023.

5/ Despite an appeal from the family, the military prosecutor's office refused to intervene and said there had been no violations. Anisimov was again rated fit after treatment and was returned to the front line on crutches, where he was given the predictable call sign 'Crutch'.

6/ He was given his first two-week leave in July 2023, by when the symptoms of lung cancer were beginning to appear. The family paid for treatment at their own expense – the state did not provide any help – and tried unsuccessfully to persuade him not to go back to the army.

7/ In October 2024, Anisimov was urgently hospitalized in intensive care with gastric bleeding. He had to pay a 100,000 ruble ($1,280) bribe to his commanders to be allowed to go to hospital. Even so, when his cancer was diagnosed he was threatened with being declared a deserter.

8/ This time, however, a military-medical commission finally rated him unfit to fight and discharged him. With stage 4 lung cancer diagnosed, he died a few months later.

His daughter Anastasia is angry at the torment inflicted on her father:

9/ "He could no longer live without painkillers, he could not sleep – he simply did not sleep for more than an hour at all. Once, he even tried to commit suicide from pain and despair. During these two years at war, he was broken not only physically, but also mentally.

10/ "Stress. Fear. Horror. Of course, it was because of the war, because of the forced transfer there. A man with serious illnesses and broken legs was mobilised illegally!

11/ "When his condition began to go downhill, they did not even give him money for treatment – they promised an insurance payment, they promised to “sort it out”, but they deceived him.

12/ "They sent him back for “treatment” practically at the point of death, when there was nothing left of his health – there were already problems with his kidneys, blood pressure, the bleeding became incessant...

13/ "When I called the insurance company after his death, they told me that no documents on payment were ultimately registered." Denied any assistance, the family buried him at their own expense.

14/ Anastasia concludes:

"No one needed him himself - his condition, his pain, his diagnoses. They only needed his body. Purely for reporting purposes. Just to be listed, just to be "in the ranks."

15/ "Just think, a disabled man was immediately given a weapon upon arrival at the front! And he couldn't even walk." /end

Source:
sibreal.org/a/mobilizovann…