In Russian regions, hundreds of mobilized soldiers who refused to fight in Ukraine are being forcibly sent to the front. Those who resist are beaten and tied up. Refusers are put on planes at gunpoint and sent to the front, including to assaults near Kharkiv, without regard for injuries, travel restrictions, and scheduled court hearings related to desertion cases.
Sergey Krugly decided not to return to the war because he couldn't stop imagining the human heads he collected from the fields of Ukraine after battles. The 29-year-old resident of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in the Sverdlovsk region was mobilized in the fall of 2022, and in March 2023, he came home on leave. He didn't sleep for the first month. At five in the morning, his mother would call his sister: "I don't know what to do with him." His aunt would come over and see Sergey, who, in a state of unconsciousness,