Residents of Vologda recorded a video message to the governor of the region and "higher authorities", in which they demanded the return of their mobilized husbands and sons – they were thrown to the front line in the Svatov region of the Luhansk region without training and equipment.
The video was posted by Elena Kuznetsova, one of those who applied.
According to the women, the men were called up on October 1, and on the 16th they ended up in the Lugansk region. The training, the Vologda residents complain, “was carried out at a very low level – they went to the training ground 4 times.” The men were told that they were traveling "in order to protect the territory, to ensure the rear." As a result, they “survived in the trenches” on the spot, while the command settled in “warm houses”.
On November 1, conscripts were sent to the front line in the Svatov region. They said to dig in – "without shovels, without equipment, without anything." The only weapons the men had were submachine guns. There they came under heavy fire.
“The guys came under heavy and deadly artillery fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were subjected to mortar attacks, drone attacks. The guys were trapped in a fiery trap, they were killed. Both the enemy and our artillery fired at our guys, ”the women are indignant.
How many people came under fire, where they are now, how many were injured or killed, is not specified.
“The time has come to act, and not to think and wait for everyone to be cut down in this bloody meat grinder! Please return our husbands, sons from this hell!” the women say.
On November 9, more than 20 relatives of those mobilized from the Voronezh, Kursk and Belgorod regions arrived at a military unit in the Belgorod border town of Valuyki and demanded that their husbands, who had come under fire in Lugansk Makeevka, be taken out to Russian territory. One of the women said that about 159 survivors from four brigades are trying to get to their loved ones from the Luhansk region. They are carrying the wounded.
Relatives of the soldiers said that if they were not helped, they themselves would go to the front line to rescue the men.