ATESH: Russian commanders sell refusing soldiers to collaborators

Refusing soldiers work at enterprises and construction sites in Melitopol and Berdyansk. This indicates, in the opinion of partisans, the involvement of higher command in this illegal trafficking of personnel. New draft rules are also spreading to the occupied territories, particularly in Melitopol. Occupiers demand individuals to report to the 'military registration and enlistment office' and categories of the population subject to mobilization.

Agents of the partisan movement 'ATESH' report cases of actual sale of their subordinates by commanders to other individuals. Soldiers who refuse to participate in assault operations are recorded as 'missing in action' and sent to unpaid labor for local collaborators in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhia region. For this, commanders receive monetary rewards.

Corruption and negligence in military leadership can jeopardize the lives and safety of servicemen and residents of the occupied territories. A thorough investigation of these facts is necessary, and those responsible should be punished to avoid further destabilization of the situation in the region.