“I am not ready to kill for any reason. By the time you see this video, I won’t be alive anymore.”. Russian rapper Ivan Peturin, better known as “Walkie”, was 27 years old. He ended his life to avoid the partial mobilization announced by Vladimir Putin on September 21.
Before jumping from the top of his building in the city of Krasnodar (western Russia), the young man recorded a video published on Telegram to explain his gesture. “I cannot commit the sin of murder and I don’t want to. May the people I love forgive me.”, he said with tears in his eyes. Ivan Peturin previously served in the Russian army and was treated in a psychiatric hospital. DailyMail: .
Against the mobilization of Russians to fight in Ukraine, the rapper wanted to blame Vladimir Putin. “We have become hostages of a madman who only gives us a choice between the army and prison.” For Ivan Peturin, suicide was a way to show his disapproval of the war. “My last choice is to choose the right way to die. Whether it’s being killed by the people we attacked or for protesting one last time.”
Ivan Peturin’s suicide happened after the Russian President announced the mobilization of 300,000 Russians of military age. Many of them are desperately trying to avoid military service in Ukraine. By: DailyMail:, more than 194,000 citizens fled to the neighboring countries of Georgia, Kazakhstan and Finland. Some people are even willing to mutilate themselves to avoid the front.
Source: Le Figaro
