Dozens of Russian conscripts have been told that they are being trained in the Rostov region for use in territorial defense. Instead, they were herded into the Luhansk region of Ukraine at night and imprisoned in a factory there. This emerges from text and audio messages from some of the more than 100 conscripts, as well as stories from their relatives with the network “Astra”. There they were “sold like cattle” to the Wagner mercenary group, reports ” The Daily Beast ” based on the “Astra” research.
57 out of 170 conscripts had agreed to sign contracts with Wagner. 113 not. They were then taken to another location in Luhansk, according to Astra. Their relatives do not know what happened to them. Their phones were confiscated by “people with guns,” a soldier told his family.
Russian soldier after Wagner refusal to his family: “They will kill us and dump us in the field”
He reported to his relatives and described the situation to them when he still had his phone with him, reports “Astra”. About 30 Wagner representatives with weapons had arrived. “They’re already herding us around at gunpoint, that’s it, the turning of the screws has started,” he said. Last week they were dumped at a factory in Stakhanov.
Some of them were forced to sign contracts with the Wagner mercenary force and then formed their own private military group called the Wolves, it said. Another soldier told his family, “We have no choice. Those who said ‘no’ have already been picked up and I don’t know what will happen to them now. Wagner has arrived. You see, they don’t give a shit, they’ll kill us and dump us in the field and that’s it”.
