2023-12-05 20:31:08
Updated Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 19:31
One hundred people sign a letter to Putin assuring that the soldiers have been on the front line for ten months
A Ukrainian soldier guards a position in August in AvdivkaAP / LibkosDirect War Ukraine – Russia, breaking news
The relatives of the reservists mobilized by the Russian army denounced today that The officers force the wounded to fights in an attempt to conquer the strategic city of Avdivka (Donetsk) before the end of the year.
“On November 25, they received another order so that the lightly and moderately wounded were treated in the trenches. They do not even take pity on the militiamen of the Donetsk People’s Republic. They collect what is left of them and return to the assault. “one of the wives pointed out to the Vazhnie Istorii portal.
In the letter signed by more than one hundred people that they sent to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, they assure that The soldiers have been on the front line for ten monthsjust 700 meters from Avdivka, under Ukrainian control since 2014.
Relatives claim that since November, the wounded have participated in the assaults, in an attempt to get the city into their hands before Putin participates in his annual press conference on December 14.
Relatives of the soldiers of the Western Military District point out: “They need some kind of result. Everyone says that we take Avdivka and then there will be negotiations” for peace.
“We tell Putin to count the personnel. How many are really left, not according to the military cards, but what appears in the reports. My husband says that they stumble upon corpses there, that it is full of them,” she said.
The soldiers deployed in that area They are on average 40 years old and have not enjoyed vacations since the beginning of their mobilization. decreed by Putin in September 2022, according to complaints.
The Russian army began the counteroffensive two months ago to take Avdivka, a city located less than 20 kilometers from Donetsk, capital of the homonymous region.
Recently, the wives and relatives of the Russian reservists mobilized in September 2022 published a harsh manifesto with a request to demand that the president immediately end the indefinite mobilization.
“We remember how the president promised that reservists would not be called up, that the missions of the special military operation would be carried out only by professional volunteers. And, then, our loved ones were sent to Ukraine. The promises, in fact, turned out to be empty” , Be the.
Among other demands, they demand filling the existing legal vacuum by establishing “a limited term of service in case of partial mobilization. No more than one year from the moment of discharge.”
The head of the Duma Defense Committee, Andri Kartaplov, assured that those mobilized will only return to their homes “after the special military operation is concluded.”
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