Russian women are no longer safe either: an SVO contract servicewoman who spoke out against lies is being sent to the front line — according to her, to be killed
In our previous publications, we had already suggested that, given such inhumane treatment of military personnel, the millstones of this merciless war would inevitably reach women as well. The same combination of lawlessness, humiliation, deception and total disregard for human life and dignity that Russian male servicemen face today would sooner or later be extended to women too.
The story of Lyudmila Poltarakova confirms this.
Lyudmila Leonidovna Poltarakova, a contract servicewoman serving in the 370th Separate Medical Battalion, recorded an appeal in which she said that the terms under which she and more than 80 female prisoners had signed contracts with the Ministry of Defence had been changed.
The 370th Separate Medical Battalion is part of the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Taman Division of the 1st Guards Tank Army. According to Poltarakova, the women perform tasks in the zone of the so-called SVO as orderlies in evacuation groups: they pull out the wounded and the dead, serve on the front line without proper rotation, rest or leave.
They agreed to sign contracts because they believed the promise that, after the end of the SVO, their convictions would be expunged and they would be able to return to civilian life. As Lyudmila says, they were promised a chance to “atone for their guilt before society and the people of Russia” through hard and dangerous work on the front line.
However, according to her, on 10 June 2026, battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Ramazan Mutalipov informed them that after the end of the SVO, servicewomen of category “B” would be returned to correctional facilities to continue serving their sentences. In other words, as they were now told, participation in combat only suspends the prison term, but does not fully cancel it.
Lyudmila was instructed to pass this information on to the other women in the unit. Later, according to her, the same words were confirmed by the deputy commander for military-political work with the call sign “Stazher” and the acting deputy chief of staff with the call sign “Rostov”.
And here the main question arises: if these women die, become disabled, suffer serious wounds and lose their health, why does the so-called Motherland take none of this into account? Why does the state not only fail to keep its promises, but effectively change the rules retroactively?
Poltarakova herself said that she had suffered a serious wound during an evacuation, the consequences of which led to epilepsy. Among people she knows, there are both dead and severely wounded women. In particular, she mentions servicewoman Dayana Stepanova, who was seriously wounded and left disabled.
“It turns out that we all shed our blood for nothing and risked our lives for nothing,” Lyudmila says.
This phrase, in effect, becomes the main conclusion of the entire story. The women went to the front believing the state’s promises. They pulled out the wounded and the dead, did not go on leave, worked without rotation or rest, hoping that their convictions would be forgiven and expunged. But now they are effectively being told: after all this, you may be sent back to a correctional facility.
Lyudmila refused to accept this. She filed a report asking for her contract to be terminated and for her to be returned to a correctional facility to continue serving her sentence, if the promised expungement of her conviction will indeed not be fulfilled.
But then the same thing began that is already well known from numerous cases of violations of the rights of male servicemen. As soon as a person starts defending their rights, especially publicly, the system perceives it not as a lawful demand, but as a challenge. And then the familiar mechanism of destruction is switched on.
According to Poltarakova, on 30 June she received an urgent order sending her to the front line.
“Today, 30 June, by urgent order, I am supposed to go to the front line, where it is very easy to eliminate a person, as you know,” she says.
This phrase sounds especially familiar. Because this is not merely about being transferred to a combat zone. She is effectively speaking about the fear of being killed in a place where death can easily be written off as a circumstance of war.
According to Poltarakova, the order was delivered to her by the deputy battalion commander for military-political work, Telman Magomedovich. As the servicewoman claims, he insists that she immediately leave for the area where combat missions are being carried out.
This is where the story becomes even more alarming. First, a woman publicly speaks about the failure to fulfil promises made to prisoners when they signed their contracts. Then she demands an investigation and a legal assessment. And after that, according to her, she receives an urgent order to go to a place where it is very easy to “eliminate” a person.
Lyudmila Poltarakova is asking the competent authorities to verify the circumstances she has described and to give a legal assessment both to her previous statements and to the latest events. But the question is whether the system itself is capable of giving a legal assessment to its own lawlessness.
Knowing how this system deals with those it considers inconvenient — with those who begin asking questions, demanding that promises be kept and publicly speaking about violations — her fear for her life cannot be called groundless.
In her voice, one can hear confusion, uncertainty and fear. But this fear is not weakness. It is the fear of a person who has understood all too well the system in which she has found herself. A system where human life is worth nothing, where promises can be cancelled retroactively, where blood, wounds and disability do not even give a person the right to an honest answer.
If earlier it could be said that this meat grinder primarily devoured men, it is now becoming clear: it has reached women too. Women who were also promised atonement, a return to normal life and forgiveness — only to be told, in effect, that their blood had changed nothing.
And when one of them tried to say this out loud, according to her own words, she was urgently sent to a place where a person can be “eliminated”.
Source: Telegram channel “Don’t Expect Good News”
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