More than 100 mobilized from Chuvashia staged a riot at the training center in Ulyanovsk due to the lack of promised payments (195 thousand rubles) and recorded complaints against the command and authorities on video. Their appeal “to the citizens of Russia” was published by the human rights project Gulagu.net and the Telegram channel “Angry Chuvashia”.
According to the statement, the drafted Russians refuse to participate in the war with Ukraine and "will seek justice" until they are paid the promised amounts. The mobilized are also trying to find out where the regiment commander is.
“Dear citizens of the Russian Federation, the mobilized servicemen of the Chuvash Republic are turning to you! We, risking our own lives, are going to certain death for your safety and peaceful life! Our state refuses to pay us the money in the amount of 195 thousand rubles, which our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin promised us! Why then should we go to fight for this state, leaving our families without support?”
In one of the videos, the mobilized person says that when he came to the military registration and enlistment office, the military commissar explained to him that there would be a one-time payment of 200 thousand. “Yes, it was! It was! shout the other mobilized. In response, they are explained that there was such a bill, it passed only one reading and it was removed from the agenda. To this, the mobilized advised the deputies to “hand over their party tickets” and go to war in Ukraine themselves. Men complain that the authorities "f*cked" them.
In the video, filmed at night, the mobilized shout: "One for all and all for one."
According to the sources of "Angry Chuvashia", OMON and the National Guard were pulled into the center to suppress the riot.
This is not the first time that those mobilized in Russia complain about problems with command or uniforms, as well as provision. In the last month alone, dozens of such videos have appeared on the network. Earlier in October, a video with complaints about the command and the governor was recorded by those mobilized in the Penza region. Mobilized from Bashkortostan also recorded a video message to officials, where they complained about the "very meager" conditions in which they were left by the command. They announced the lack of water and food, as well as being sent to the front without preparation. On October 5, a video appeared on social networks with the indignation of the mobilized Russians who arrived in the Belgorod region. On the footage, the men claimed that they were given decommissioned cartridges and weapons from the 1970s, they themselves were not assigned to any unit and had been living without material support for a week.
Since the beginning of Putin's announcement of a "partial" mobilization, the authorities have denied reports of a shortage of equipment for the mobilized. At the same time, even on the government resource, conscripts are advised to take quadrocopters and night vision devices with them to the military unit, and in some units they are urged to buy bulletproof vests and dressings in advance. The Insider found that the wives of mobilized Russians are discussing in Telegram chats that it costs about 150,000 rubles to assemble a husband for war. Women are outraged that they have to spend the family budget on this.