We, the liberal public, keep trying to understand the psychology of people who believe in perpetual power and its wars. But sometimes the answer is heard in their own pleas to those in authority.
Marina Mamitova asks Alexander Bastrykin to save her brother: seriously wounded, with a leg injury, he was beaten, shoved into a car straight from the hospital, and forcibly sent into an assault unit despite fitness category “G” and his right to treatment.
But the main point is elsewhere. To her, Bastrykin’s 15 years in office are proof that he “does his job well.” In Russia, however, such longevity at the top speaks not of professionalism, but of a system built on non-rotation of power and personal loyalty.
The price of this illusion turned out to be predictable: Bastrykin refused, and her brother, like many others, was sent into an assault on crutches. And this is not an exception but a rule: the wounded and maimed are thrown into the slaughter again and again, while brigades are ground down and replenished with new doomed men.
“This is the most accursed brigade. It’s just expendable material. A battalion is replaced two or three times a month, at least twice. And a regiment is replaced every two months. That means no people are left. It is a special kind of penal brigade.”
Marina Borisovna Mamitova, sister of Dzatte Borisovich Mamitov, born 20 September 1997, who served in the 5th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, once again appealed to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, stating that investigators had done nothing in the case concerning violence against her brother.
“They fastened him to the seat-belt anchor and drove him like that from North Ossetia toward the DPR.”
According to Marina, the 121st Military Investigative Department found no crime in the actions of the brigade’s commanders and refused to open a criminal case, notifying the family by unsigned email.
She asks Bastrykin to personally review the inspection materials, give a legal assessment of what happened, determine whether a crime took place, and allow her a personal meeting.
A fellow serviceman says Dzatte was sent into an assault with a severe leg injury, and that this is a mass practice: soldiers, including those on crutches, are systematically sent into the assault units of the 5th Brigade, which he calls “penal” and “expendable.” According to him, all this happens under the protection of brigade commander Ramil Faskhutdinov, call sign “Mamay.”
“If we’re talking about the top of the chain, the main one there is the brigade commander, Mamay.”
At the same time, numerous complaints to the military prosecutor’s office and federal authorities bring no result; the inspections, he says, are purely formal.
“In groups of 10 or 15, people file complaints over transfers, over pressure, over being sent on crutches. They write to Moscow, to the prosecutor’s office, to Bastrykin, to Putin. A check comes from Moscow — and that’s it. Before they even arrive, everyone has already been warned. They bury any issue.”
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Source: the Telegram channel “Don’t Expect Good News”
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