This story resembles a dark novel by Stephen King, where human life is turned into expendable material for profit. But the problem is that this is not fiction and not a horror movie. This is modern-day Russia.
Former disabled serviceman Andrey Topchiy, who could only move with crutches, was kidnapped in front of his 13-year-old daughter. According to the family, on the morning of December 5 in Yenakiieve, around ten masked men stormed onto the property of a private home, handcuffed him, and drove him away in the trunk of a passenger car.
Topchiy served in the 114th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. Relatives say that back in 2022 he was mobilized through deception — without a medical examination, without proper paperwork, and without signing a contract. At the time he already had non-deployable medical conditions, and after being wounded in 2023 along with an old ankle injury, he could only walk using crutches.
In other words, the state machine sent a man to war who was physically incapable of serving as a полноценный soldier. And then, apparently, decided to completely “dispose of” him.
Almost a month after the abduction, the family received a notice from the Ministry of Defense stating that Andrey Topchiy had been listed as missing in action since December 25, 2025, during a “combat mission” near Novo-Shakhovo. His relatives do not believe this version.
The most terrifying part is not even the kidnapping itself. The most terrifying part is the logic behind it. Why did it take ten masked men, handcuffs, and transporting a disabled man in a car trunk? Why send a man on crutches to the front line when he is incapable of carrying out combat tasks?
The answer appears horrifyingly obvious.
Large payments are promised for participation in the war, for injuries, and especially for death. Against this backdrop, everything begins to resemble not mobilization, but a new scheme of redistribution of money and property, where human life itself becomes the bargaining chip.
Andrey’s son recalls his last conversation with his father on December 14:
“Son, help me. Here the medical commission will declare me healthy. If I don’t call again — goodbye, help your mother.”
The family contacted the police, but the kidnapping case is effectively not being investigated. Other state agencies also remain silent.
In any normal country, such a story would become a national scandal and the plot of a criminal thriller. In modern Russia, it becomes just another line in the reports, where a disabled man on crutches can disappear after being abducted by masked men — and the state system will simply classify him as “missing in action.”
Source: Telegram channel “DON’T EXPECT Good News” https://t.me/ne_zhdi_novosti/5239