No matter how wrong Russians may be on a global scale, when they run into local injustice and war crimes, many try to fight it. And inside the Russian armed forces, among Russian service members, this becomes especially visible: when someone hits a wall of concrete wrongdoing — kickbacks, threats, “zeroing,” deaths, and the burying of truth — they try to restore justice.

But a system built not to solve problems, but to shut mouths with prison — or, in military practice, to kill instead of restoring justice — shows its true face: it starts fighting not the crime, but those who want to fight that injustice. And this is one such case.

This is one such case.

A Russian army soldier of the 164th Motor Rifle Regiment, Korotkiy Yegor Vladimirovich (callsign “Samara”), records appeals from the military commandant’s office in Krasnodar and says directly: his life is in danger from the unit’s command. He doesn’t speak in “generalities” — he gives specifics: people, schemes, kickbacks, pressure.

He names a serviceman with the callsign “Tatarin,” links him to illegal financial schemes — from “purchasing equipment for the training ground and drones” to using military vehicles “for personal needs,” and speaks about extortion from the rank and file:
“Right now Tatarin is at the training ground, and he was also involved in shake-downs.”

And then — not just “bad management,” but something that sounds like hell and a crime. He talks about a battle where the unit came under massive fire, the wounded were being evacuated, but evacuation requests were ignored, and command demanded they continue the assault. The result: losses, bodies no one retrieves:
“Well, after that they shot us up there. Practically all the guys who were there. A lot of bodies are lying around. Nobody takes them at all. Buried neatly — without heads, without arms, without legs.”

And then — the most frightening: the story of the death of the unit’s chief medical officer, who worried about the lives and health of Russian service members and signed leave papers for treatment in hospitals. And then — a burned-out “Kamaz,” “a wiring short” on paper, and the words of a person who is convinced it was murder:
“We found the body closer to 3 a.m. in the burned-out ‘Kamaz.’ They killed everyone who signed us leave papers for hospitals so we could be sent back to the front.”

He files complaints with the military prosecutor’s office — no response. He tries to file a transfer report — the commandant’s office refuses to accept it. And he says a simple thing that can’t be unseen: if he gets killed — blame the command of the 164th Motor Rifle Regiment.

And what does the system that is supposedly meant to examine such claims by Russian service members do? It does not rush to investigate extortion, threats, deaths, and a possible murder. It rushes to break the one who spoke.

The second news item appears: former Russian army serviceman of the 12th Guards Tank Regiment Mikhail (callsign “Krest”) reports that Yegor is now in the pre-trial detention center in Krasnodar, and a hearing is already scheduled for the 7th — fast, “in the tightest possible timeframe,” without a real examination of the facts:
“At first we thought it would be a preliminary hearing, but no — turns out it’s not. On the 7th they already want to convict the person without hearings, without anything at all.”

Yegor’s mother passed official replies to the investigative authorities from the Presidential Administration, the prosecutor’s office, and other agencies, stating that the case is under control and an inspection is underway. However, according to Mikhail, investigator Boronezhskiy Sergey Sergeyevich completely ignores the documents received.

Yegor is being psychologically pressured. He is being forced to renounce the previously recorded video appeals in which he reported extortion and threats from fellow servicemen.
“Right now they’re, so to speak, ‘toughening Yegor up’ morally, forcing him to write a retraction of those videos he recorded about his situation.”
And they add a cynical “prospect” of prison time:
“They’re threatening him with 10 years and more, and they don’t give a fuck about any instructions or any papers that came from higher authorities.”

That’s what the “system” is: not investigating what reeks of war crimes and killings, but quickly silencing it, closing it, burying the topic — together with a Russian service member who dared to raise it.

And as long as this system can with impunity pressure witnesses, break whistleblowers, turn court into a conveyor belt, and replace investigation with “paperwork,” it will reproduce the same reality again and again. Defeating it is not about violence, but about what it hates most: publicity, independent attention, legal defense, public naming of people and facts, and demands for a real investigation and accountability — up the chain to those who cover it up and organize it.

Source: Telegram channel “DON’T EXPECT Good News” — https://t.me/ne_zhdi_novosti/4586