“Sun, we bring it to you: they used to feed once a day, now they have stopped”
Nestka spoke with relatives of the mobilized who refused to fight on the front line and have been kept in basements in the Luhansk region for several weeks now.
In total, up to 250 servicemen who refused to fight on the front line can be held in the basements of Zaitsevo. The mobilized tell their relatives that they are not fed well in the cellars, they are being “murdered” and every day they are forced to return to the front. The wife of one of the servicemen who is being held in Zaytsevo claims that on November 21, 100 people were taken out of the basement with machine guns pointed at their heads.
Natalia, wife of a conscript from the Oryol region
On November 6, my husband called, early in the morning. His voice was cold, somewhat out of breath, he was coughing.
I say: “Kol, is that you?” He replies, “Yes. Natasha, just don’t be scared, we have just left the encirclement, we are going to our positions in Svatovo. I asked him what other environment he could be talking about if he was supposed to be on the third line. He explained that they were immediately thrown to the front line ….
… When the offensive of Ukraine began, according to her husband, there were tanks, aircraft, and even mercenaries went to them. My husband’s battalion had nothing – even the senior command was not present, only company officers, and they had to take full responsibility for the orders. They were just thrown in as bait.
… Everyone went out as best they could. … On November 10, at 2:10 pm, my husband called me and quickly said that they were being taken away – they were taking them to no one knows where. He promised to hide the phone in order to get in touch, and he managed to do it.
The next day, when he called me again, he told me that they were kept in a strange semi-basement room, similar to a sobering-up station, without water and food for the first day.
Marina, sister of the mobilized from the Moscow region
About the losses, the brother only managed to report that there were a lot of them. He said that initially there were only 38 people in Novoselkovsky in all positions and in the village. Then they began to bring in parts of the mobilized, and in total there were about 500 people. He says, God forbid that a hundred of them come out. There was also a group of guys who during the battle were surrounded and could not get out of there for a long time. He told a relative that they prayed for five days not to be found. They said: “There are so many bodies, they just lie there, no one can take them away.”
… The mobilized went out in groups. My brother went out with 16 other guys. They went on foot to the town of Svatov.
… They were not allowed to go into the city with weapons, they took away the machine guns without any act. Well, naturally, no one took them to the UK. They said: “Go to the forest belt and wait.” They didn’t give me water or food – nothing to survive on the street. On the night of November 6-7, the forest belt was fired with mortars.
… On November 10, my brother also went to the market, called from one of the phones and just told me everything. On the same day, the military police came to the guys along with this General Yarov, who just yelled at them with good obscenities. They loaded their truck and took them somewhere. The guys say that the room looks like a sobering-up station: there was a fence, barbed wire. They put them in cells with bunks, with a wooden floor – fortunately it was warm.
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