Time.news – Lieutenant Colonel Roman Malyk, responsible for mobilizing Russian reservists to be sent to Ukraine, was found hanged in his home in a village in the Primorsky region. This was reported by some international media, including the Mirror and the Hindustan Times. The police opened an investigation and called the circumstances of the 49-year-old’s death “suspicious”. Investigators do not rule out suicide.
The officer’s body, veteran of Chechnya and father of two children, was found in the courtyard of his house, near a fence. Malyk’s friends and family, who handled recruiting in the southeastern Primorsky Krai region, firmly denied that the lieutenant colonel may have committed suicide, describing him as “a strong and courageous man“.
The mobilization decided by the Kremlin, which intends call up to 300,000 men to arms to send them to Ukraine, led thousands of Russians to flee abroad. The angry reaction from part of the population saw up to 70 conscription offices attacked with Molotov cocktails.
The emptying of the public offices in Kherson
The Russians “are intensifying filtering measures in the Kherson region and are starting the process of evacuating the so-called state institutions”. This is what the Kiev general staff reports on its Facebook page. “According to the information available, employees and property of banks and a pension fund come brought from Kherson to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea“, communicates the general staff, which also reported that” the level of the moral and psychological state of the population in the border areas of the Russian Federation has significantly decreased “.
“In particular”, the statement continues, “this is caused by the lack of medical care for civilians”. “According to the information available, due to the mobilization of health workers and the increase in the flow of injured, civilians are denied medical services in Belgorod Oblast hospitals“, argues the Ukrainian staff.
The great escape to South Korea
The fleeing Russians are pushing as far as South Korea to avert the risk of being forced to fight in Ukraine. The NBC reports that, since the Kremlin’s announcement, 23 Russian citizens out of five boats have reached the Asian country but a only two of them were granted entry.
An Ho-young, a deputy from the opposition Democratic Party of South Korea, explained to the US broadcaster that 23 Russians had applied for a tourist visa, denied 21 of them as they had “insufficient documentation” with them and their trip had an “unclear objective”. The two admitted people were in possession of documents from which it emerged that they had previously been to South Korea.
“Korea is likely to be becoming an intermediate stop as more and more people try to flee Russia, “An noted, according to whom it is” urgent “that the Seoul government prepare measures to manage a potential influx of men fleeing the mobilization,” such as specific procedures to manage what could turn into a diplomatic and human rights issue “.
Russian citizens are allowed visa-free entry into South Korea but immigration officials can deny them entry. The thousands of men of military age who hurried to leave Russia to avoid draft have flowed to neighboring countries such as Georgia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan or to more distant destinations such as Turkey.
The traffic jams at border crossings and the sell-out on international flights are now pushing some dodgers to choose even more remote destinations in order to avoid going to fight in Ukraine. US media, for example, reported some Federation citizens who sought refuge in the United States by boat to Alaska.
Meanwhile, on the military front, four civilians were wounded in the bombing of the Kiev army on the Russian region of Belgorod, on the border with Ukraine. The governor of Oblast, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reports on Telegram. The Russian Defense Ministry has announced the destruction of three command posts and five ammunition depots of Ukrainian forces, including one in Zaporizhzhia. “Attacks of tactical aviation and army, missile forces and artillery in the past 24 hours have hit three command posts in the vicinity of Koroviy Yar and Nikiforovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Novoosinovo in the Kharkov region, as well as 42 artillery units in their positions and troops and military material in 141 sites “, said Russian defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov.