Some of the mobilized from the Voronezh region, assigned to the 252nd regiment, who refused to return to the front line after the defeat near Svatovo, were taken to the territory of Russia – to a military unit in the city of Boguchar. This is reported by "Layout" with reference to a relative of one of the military.
“I saw him in person and even hugged him. He is in the military unit in Boguchar. They were taken there. He said that he would be sent somewhere soon. Where, of course, no one will say, ”the girl said, adding that her relative did not refuse to fight, but only demanded normal equipment and training.
In early November, the 252nd regiment came under fire in the Svatovsky district of the Lugansk region. The survivors retreated from the front line. The command ordered them to return to the front line, but the soldiers refused, after which they were threatened with criminal cases of "desertion".
Other servicemen from the same regiment, who had been in the Luhansk region since the beginning of October in the direction of Svatovo-Makeevka, reported that they were sent to the front without training. They found themselves under mortar fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, armed only with machine guns and grenades.
At the end of October, the mobilized, according to their relatives, were transferred even closer to the shelling zone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – they were there without any connection with the command: “For several days they hid from shelling, someone was seriously injured, someone was killed. Our guys ran out of provisions and water, there was no ammunition. Ate what they find, drank from a puddle. [They] were simply sent to their deaths.”
After that, the servicemen decided to retreat and made attempts to find the nearest military unit. There are only 39 of them left. On October 28, they went to a military unit in the Luhansk region, where they were ordered to lay down their arms. It turned out that, according to the documents, the soldiers were at the scene illegally, they should supposedly be in the Belgorod region. The men were "sent on foot to the Rostov region."
Relatives of the mobilized ordered a bus for them, which was supposed to pick up men from Starobilsk, they were waiting at the Chertkovo checkpoint. However, the soldiers never reached the Belgorod military unit. At the checkpoint, they were taken by the military commandant's office and taken to the Lugansk village of Melovoye. Now these soldiers are accused of desertion.
On November 10, residents of Vologda recorded a video message to the governor of the region and "higher authorities", in which they demanded the return home of their mobilized husbands and sons, who, without training and equipment, were thrown to the front line in the Svatov region.
The video was posted by Elena Kuznetsova, one of those who applied.
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.