The day of the defender

From military units deployed in the Kamenka of the Leningrad Region, nine soldiers soldiers disappeared without a trace, which were forced to sign "contracts for the transition to contract service." All of them are from the Republic of Komi. About their fate, nothing is known to their family and friends. The names and surnames of the missing on February 22 were at the disposal of the organization "Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg".

The other day, the Internet publication Fontanka.ru reported the disappearance of another soldier from the same part. Then the "soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg" received a letter from the father of 22-year-old Vitaly Maltsev, who allegedly left unauthorizedly part of the Kamenka and missing. Maltsev served in the military unit 22833 in the village of Pechenga Murmansk region. On November 19, 2006, shortly before the expected Dembel, the parents came from Lenvo that their son "arbitrarily left the military unit 67661."

Parents began to make inquiries how their son was near St. Petersburg, and from the military commissar of the Komi Republic they received an answer that on November 25, 2005, Vitaly was "sent for further service under a contract in the 138th motorized rifle brigade in Kamenka's village."

The military prosecutor's office of Lenvo confirmed that the criminal case on the fact of leaving part of Vitaly Maltsev was instituted and is located in the military prosecutor's office of the Vyborg garrison. The soldier is put on the wanted list and "took control." Meanwhile, as notes the publication, this is not the first case of the disappearance of soldiers from part in Kamenka. So, on July 4, 2005, Dmitry Pushkarev disappeared, on August 23, 2006, Artem Mustyatsa disappeared. September 4, 2006, after the "Dysbat", Leonid Sokolov disappeared.

In early October 2006, soldier Yuri Gushchin disappeared from a unit in Kamenka. He had two months before demobilization. The leadership of the unit told Gushchin that her son went on vacation. Communication with the colleagues of Yuri was limited and only in the presence of officers. On January 9, 2007, the unknown mother called Mother Gushchi and said that her son was brutally beaten in the part in which he served. The military prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against Yuri Gushchi under Article 337, part 4 (unauthorized abandonment of the unit).