A volunteer from Russia who had actively supported the “special military operation” ended her appeal with a phrase that is both brilliant—and, at the same time, painfully obvious: “no one has the right to decide who should live and who should die.”
But she arrived at this simple truth only after personal tragedy struck: two of her brothers died. And one of them, according to her, was sent back to the front in a condition that defies both medicine and basic reason: with a leg that should have been amputated. What’s more, she says her brother told her that before being sent into an assault, he was brutally beaten.
She wrote petitions—and neither the President nor the Chief Military Prosecutor became a source of real help or protection.
And then the unavoidable question emerges: why do such elementary truths reach people so late—not when they support the war, hoping for “justice” from the side of the original aggression and invasion, namely the Russian authorities, but only after personal catastrophe? And why is the price of these truths for them so unbearably high?
This isn’t an abstraction—it directly follows from what is described in the story itself. Alexandra, the sister of a serviceman from the 143rd Motor Rifle Regiment, asks for an inspection of the unit and for authorities to find out “how it happens that guys without arms, without legs end up in the SVO zone, back on the front line.”
She claims that her brother Konstantin, after severe wounds, needed urgent medical care, was in critical condition, and before being sent to positions reported a rotting leg and splitting stitches. To ensure this would not remain “just words,” Alexandra attached a video in which her brother shows the wound—a leg that is effectively decomposing—and says he is being denied medical care and is about to be sent to the front again.
Alexandra describes how her appeals to multiple agencies—the Presidential Administration office handling citizens’ appeals, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Defense, the military prosecutor’s office, and the Investigative Committee—went in circles for months with no results: “These statements just went around in circles from one department to another, from one district to another.”
She also says she was given information that, in her view, did not match reality: “It was a lie. At that moment he was not at any base point, and he was not being prepared for evacuation.” Then, after she managed to secure a hospital referral, the unit informed the family that the soldier is officially listed as missing in action.
Her final demand sounds less like “emotion” and more like an indictment of the system: “I ask that those who were inactive, forwarding all these statements, and the unit itself, and his company commander in particular, bear some responsibility, some punishment for what was done.”
Source: the Telegram channel “Don’t Expect Good News”: https://t.me/ne_zhdi_novosti/4306