On February 24, Russia launched a massive invasion of Ukraine.
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Since then, at least 1,793 Russian servicemen from 22 regions of Russia have refused to take part in the war with Ukraine. This is evidenced by the calculations of the Russian opposition site Nestka, carried out on the basis of data from open sources.
In particular, at least 234 of them are forcibly kept in a common center for “refuseniks” set up by Rashists in the area of the temporarily occupied city of Bryanka, Luhansk region.
Relatives of these soldiers report that they are in basements and other closed and guarded premises, where they are forced to physically work and tend to continue fighting, threatening to send them to a pre-trial detention center otherwise.
According to Russian human rights activists, soldiers who apply for dismissal are often threatened by commanders with “martial law”, despite the fact that martial law has not been officially declared in Russia.
In particular, they threaten with a military tribunal and claim that they can allegedly be shot in the back for treason. Also among the threats is a promise to return the military to the front, but without uniforms.
We also know cases when a “refusenik” was taken out in front of other soldiers in handcuffs and treated like a criminal, human rights activists say.
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Source: Racurs
