2024-08-18 | Relatives of Russian conscripts are looking for their sons
who disappeared after fighting in the Kursk region. “I think Putin
doesn’t even know that our sons were sent there.” Reports the Russian
oppositional media Mediazona on August 16, 2024.
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The Kursk border region is guarded predominantly by conscripts, like
many other “second tier” areas, that were previously thought to be safe
from large-scale Ukrainian assaults. At the start of Ukraine’s new
offensive conscripts found themselves on the front line. But rather than
pull them back in favour of experienced and full-time soldiers, Putin
seems to be doubling down, and sending more units of untrained and
ill-equipped fighters to take on the battle-hardened and highly
motivated Ukrainian troops.
Contract solders are now surrendering in huge quantities but also dying
like flies, to save Putin’s skin.
Many of the so-called ‘kontraktniki” have been captured or are listed as
missing. New conscripts from other units from other units are being
rushed to the border regions, though equally unprepared. But perhaps the
scale and ambition of Ukrainian plans to seize extensive further border
territory are underestimated and underappreciated both by Russia and by
some allies.
Authorities have not confirmed the deaths of the conscripts, but reports
of some individual deaths are started to come out. 22-year-old Artem
Dobrodumsky died in the Kursk region. His obituary was published at the
karate sports club where Dobrodumsky trained for many years. According
to his coach he died three days before his birthday, but the details of
his passing are not known. “All that is known today is that he served in
military service and died near Kursk,” according to his coach. Neither
the publication nor the coach asks the crucial question “for what did he
die?”
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Sources:
https://zona.media/article/2024/08/16/drafted
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