In Perevalsk, Luhansk region, a camp for refuseniks from among the Russian mobilized was dispersed. ASTRA writes about this with reference to sources in the Luhansk region and relatives of the mobilized.
According to the publication, most of the refuseniks were moved to a new basement camp under threats and torture. Its exact location is unknown. ASTRA has photographs from there, taken by one of the prisoners, but does not publish them for security reasons. In addition, the publication writes that there may be several such basements.
Relatives of the captives reported that the commanders threatened the refuseniks with execution and starved them to death. “We will shoot you and throw you into a pit, and tell your relatives that you are missing,” ASTRA quotes one of them as saying. According to relatives, in this way they are trying to return refuseniks to the war.
The wife of one of the refuseniks, who ended up in a camp in Perevalsk in October, said that her husband was taken to a new place by deceit. On November 3, he called home and said that the military had been told that they would be taken home soon. A few hours later, he called his wife again and told that they had been deceived and were going to be moved to a new camp: Yesterday, my husband called back, the connection was bad, said that they did not reach Staromayorsky because of the shelling. They are located in some basement somewhere between Staromayorsky and Rozovka.”
According to the wife of another mobilized, in the new camp the prisoners were forced to completely undress: “My husband and 80 other people are sitting in the basement, they were stripped naked in order to take away their phones, one person miraculously kept the phone. They were beaten. The food is very bad. They force them to go to the front line like meat, but the guys refuse. Everyone wrote a waiver.”
The fact that the Russian military, who refused to go to the front, is being held in custody, became known on July 26. The first camp was an abandoned prison in Bryanka, Luhansk region. Several military men who managed to get out of prison at once told The Insider that the Wagner PMC fighters and representatives of the Ministry of Defense — Colonel Nechiporenko and Lieutenant Colonel Tumanov — are “breaking” people. At the same time, the Russian military leadership denied any involvement in what was happening, claiming that the contract servicemen were being held by the Luhansk military.