We have already written about how people who end up at war often fall into de facto slavery — with no “return ticket” to civilian life, regardless of whether they suffer serious injuries or not. The only thing they are sometimes promised to “fix” is a way out allegedly possible through the command, in exchange for large bribes. But what happens if, by some almost unbelievable chance, a serviceman is not on the “line of collision” and, moreover, obtains a discharge document? It would seem that this should be the way out. In practice, it becomes nothing.

In such cases, the mechanism simply changes shape. If earlier a person was held by orders and fear, then a force-based scenario kicks in: pressure, isolation, fabricated accusations. Physical violence (including broken arms) is carried out by fellow servicemen — to extract a convenient “statement,” create a pretext for a new charge, and open a new criminal case. The most cynical part: the extorted money may be received, but that does not stop the persecution. The accusations are not dropped, and the “target” still ends up in pretrial detention — and even fellow servicemen’s admissions that the accusations were fabricated, a discharge document, and even the paid bribe do not bring any real progress toward restoring rights and freedom.

This is exactly what the mother of serviceman Tural Aliyev is talking about. She recorded an appeal asking for help, claiming that her son was effectively isolated after he tried to seek protection publicly.

According to the woman, in early October 2025 her son published a video appeal asking for help. After that, she says, investigator Shvetsov initiated actions that led to Tural’s isolation and his placement in Pretrial Detention Center (SIZO) No. 3 in the city of Frolovo — to deprive him of the ability to seek protection and prove his innocence. She describes it like this:

“In early October he posted a video appeal asking for help. As soon as investigator Shvetsov saw the video appeal, he decided to set my son up so that my son wouldn’t raise a commotion.”

The mother claims her son’s problems did not begin “yesterday” and not without reason. According to her, during his service Tural had serious health problems and needed medical care, including surgery. She says he had a referral for treatment, but hospitalization never took place. She links the failed hospitalization to the opening of a criminal case — and emphasizes that, according to her, the case was initiated after her son had already been discharged.

She also speaks about pressure that began when her son tried to contact oversight bodies and file complaints:

“My son called the prosecutor’s office, complained. They came and took my son’s phone away. There was also pressure, threats against my son.”

The woman claims that the first criminal case was opened on March 18, 2025 — already after the discharge order. According to her, it was then canceled, and later reopened again without any explanation of the grounds. After that, she says, a second case was opened — allegedly for theft — while she claims there is no evidentiary basis.

Her account also includes other episodes that resemble detention and coercion. She claims that in the summer servicemen, including her son, were held in an abandoned building without water or proper conditions, and that lawyers documented this and it became the subject of complaints.

The mother also points to a detail which, in her view, should have settled her son’s status: on June 24, 2025, the 28th Separate RKhBZ Brigade (military unit 65363) issued a statement removing Tural from all types of pay and allowances, citing the Minister of Defense’s discharge order. However, she claims investigator Shvetsov continued to assert that her son was AWOL (SOCh). At the same time, she says, Tural was in Kamyshin and remained in contact with commanders. She describes it like this:

“When there was an inspection from Moscow in unit 65363, my son managed to get into the unit. He went up with his civilian wife. Proof of that is the entire floor of ‘AWOL guys.’”

After the video appeal was published, the mother claims events moved even faster: a court hearing was held “urgently,” the defense documents were allegedly ignored, and after that Tural was sent to the SIZO in Frolovo. Since then, she says, the family has effectively been cut off from information: there is no news of his condition, and visits or a phone call were denied.

Her personal tragedy is a separate thread in this story. The woman says the family has already suffered an irreparable loss: her eldest son died in the war. And now, she says, the second son has been “hidden away” in a detention center. Her words sound not like emotion, but like a summary of what she has lived through:

“My eldest son died in the war. <…> My second son was hidden away in pretrial detention. I was left completely alone, after three kidney surgeries, without a job.”

If you put everything the mother says into one picture, it becomes a mechanism in which a person’s attempt to defend himself turns into a trigger for even harsher pressure: first the disruption of medical treatment, then criminal cases, then a rushed court hearing, then isolation. And even documents — the discharge order, the statement removing him from all pay and allowances — according to her, do not become a guarantee that his status will be recognized and his rights restored.

Is there a way out?

It is important to say this plainly: you cannot go to war with the hope that later you will “get discharged and come home.” This “way out” often exists only in conversations and promises — as bait meant to make a person take a step to where he no longer controls his fate. Even if, “by some chance,” a discharge document appears, it may not become a door to freedom. This family’s story shows that instead of a “return ticket,” a person may receive a new trap — pressure, accusations, pretrial detention. And when one son has died and the other ends up in prison for trying to defend his rights, it becomes clear: the hope of “I’ll get discharged later” is not a plan and not a guarantee. It is the risk of ending up in a brother’s place.

Source: the Telegram channel “DON’T EXPECT Good News” — https://t.me/ne_zhdi_novosti/4703?single, https://t.me/ne_zhdi_novosti/3733