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1/ Following yesterday's report about Russian commanders illegally detaining mobilised Russians, who were stripped naked and threatened with a mass execution (thread below), the news website ASTRA reports on more basement-prisons in occupied areas. ⬇️
2/ ASTRA quotes from one mobilised man's written refusal to participate in the war in Ukraine. The man, from Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East, is right now being held in a basement in the Donetsk region, according to his wife.
3/ “I cannot kill a person for reasons of conscience. It doesn't fit in my head, how can I kill? I am a civilian who works at an enterprise and feeds his family, takes care of his parents and takes care of his paralyzed grandmother."
4/ "I'm not prepared for this kind of fighting. I was fraudulently brought here by the military."
ASTRA is currently aware of at least two basements in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts where Russian mobilised men who refused to take part in hostilities are being forcibly detained.
ASTRA is currently aware of at least two basements in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts where Russian mobilised men who refused to take part in hostilities are being forcibly detained.
5/ All of the men, according to relatives, have written refusal reports and are ready to face investigation and trial, but on Russian territory and in accordance with Russian law, not in illegal basements.
6/ "In the basement they are called traitors and threatened with execution," the wife of a mobilised man from Primorsky Krai, who was taken to war despite having an exemption, told ASTRA.
7/ The basement where the man and other refuseniks are being held is near the villages of Staromlynivka and Staromaiors'ke in Donetsk Region, they said.
8/ Another basement for Russian refuseniks is a six-hour drive away, in Zaitseve (Ilyinovka) in the Luhansk region, a relative of another mobilised man told ASTRA.
More on this story from The Insider, which seems to have found the location of the basement-prison:
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