Relatives of reservists mobilized by the Russian army denounced today that officers are forcing the wounded to fight in an attempt to conquer the strategic city of Avdivka (Donetsk) before the end of the year.
“On November 25, another order came to them so that the lightly and moderately wounded were treated in the trenches. They do not even take pity on the militiamen of the Donetsk People’s Republic. They collect what is left of them and return to the assault “one of the wives told the Vazhnie Istorii portal.
In the letter signed by more than a hundred people that they sent to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, they assure that the soldiers have been on the front line for ten months, just 700 meters from Avdivka, under Ukrainian control since 2014.
Relatives claim that since November, the wounded have participated in the assaults, in an attempt to get the city into their hands before Putin participates in his annual press conference on December 14.
Relatives of the soldiers of the Western Military District say: “They need some kind of result. Everyone says that we take Avdivka and then there will be negotiations” for peace.
“We tell Putin to count the personnel. How many are really left, not according to the military cards, but what appears in the reports. My husband says that they stumble upon corpses there, that it is full of them,” she said.
The soldiers deployed in that area are on average 40 years old and have not enjoyed vacations since the beginning of their mobilization decreed by Putin in September 2022, according to the complaint.
The Russian army began the counteroffensive two months ago to take Avdivka, a city located less than 20 kilometers from Donetsk, capital of the region of the same name.
Recently, the wives and relatives of the Russian reservists mobilized in September 2022 published a harsh manifesto with a petition to demand that the president immediately end the indefinite mobilization.
“We remember how the president promised that reservists would not be called up, that the missions of the special military operation would be carried out only by professional volunteers. And then our loved ones were sent to Ukraine. The promises, in fact, turned out to be empty” , he points out.
Among other demands, they demand filling the existing legal void by establishing “a limit period of service in the event of partial mobilization. No more than one year from the moment of discharge.”
The head of the Duma Defense Committee, Andrei Kartapólov, assured that those mobilized will only return to their homes “after the special military operation is concluded.”