"We realized that we cross the border, but what to do, there is an order": a charred tankman from the Russian Federation told how he was sent to fight on the Donbass

Journalists received evidence of the presence of the military from Russia in the east of Ukraine. In an interview with Novaya Gazeta correspondent, Elena Kostyuchenko, Russian soldier Dorzhi Batomunkuev from Ulan-Ude, told how he did not write a dismissal report, and his colleagues were sent to the Donbass, without explaining anything that they were going to “bomb Khokhlov”, but they could not violate the justice. Meanwhile, according to the relatives of the soldier, the Ministry of Defense admitted that he sent him to Ukraine.

Kostyuchenko quotes the exact data of Batomunkuev: 5 separate tank brigade (Ulan-Ude), military unit N 46108, military soldier, was drafted on November 25, 2013, in June 2014 he concluded a contract for three years, personal number 200220, military ID 2609999.

Currently, a young man, who, according to him, was only 20 years old, was during a conversation with a journalist in Donetsk, in a burn center at the regional central clinical hospital. “The face is burned, wrapped in a bandage, blood protrudes from under the bandage. The hands are also wrapped in the hands. The ears were burned and cringed,” Kostyuchenko describes the victim during the battle. The young man was injured near Logvinovo, not far from Debaltseve.

It should be noted that earlier about a young man they wrote after his meeting with Joseph Kobzon. It was reported that the artist at the time of a visit to Donetsk visited the Institute of Emergency Restorative Surgery, where he talked with the Buryat, who said that he specialty the gunner and originally from the village of Mogoitui. This was written by the publication "Zabmedia" .

"We are going to bomb Khokhlov"

Batomunkuev said that he got to the Donbass voluntarily. According to him, in the unit in Ulan-Ude, where he was, by October they began to collect contractors to create a tank battalion. Soldiers from the city of Kyakhta, the administrative center of the Kyakhtinsky district of Buryatia, were attached to them. "Our tank battalion is 31 tank ... We were all together in a heap, we met, lived together for four days, and all, in a train," he said.

According to him, the management stated that he was sending a soldier to exercises to the Rostov region, but they perfectly understood where they were being taken: "We are going to bomb Khokhlov." At the same time, the trains went there every day: "Our fifth, 25th or October 27." According to the young man, one could refuse, and no one was forced to the trip.

According to the young man, the military arrived at the Kuzminsky training ground (apparently, we are talking about the Kuzminki training ground in the Rostov region). He himself got there, even when he was a conscript. “I had to end on November 27. And we arrived in Rostov in October, I still went to the stop. So I had already begun here,” Batomunkuev said, explaining that he did not write a report on the dismissal and should be listed in the ranks of the Russian army.

"The passport in the military unit was left, a military ID at the training ground"

The teachings, according to the young man, passed for three months: "They drove like sidelov goats in the exercises. I can only say that they really prepared specifically, and our snipers, and all types of troops." And on February 8, the military was unexpectedly sent to the Russian border: "The captain of our group simply went out and said: all, guys, we are going, readiness number one."

When leaving the landfill, they were ordered to hand over mobile phones and documents. Russian soldiers fought without identification marks. “We still painted the tanks in Ulan -Ude ... We painted over the numbers, someone had a guard icon - also on the tanks - too. Strikes, chevrons - they rented here ... They left a passport in the military unit, a military ID at the training ground,” he said.

"We went to the border of Russia and I got up in the forest belt. I sat in the tank - it was still light, it got out of the tank - it was already dark," the young man said about movement. Batomunkuev explained that about three hundred people crossed the border in his eyes, all from Ulan-Ude.

"The tank battalion is about 120 people - three tank companies, a platoon of security, a platoon of communication. Plus infantry, of course ... Ten tanks in each company. Three BMPs were added to each 10 tanks, medical motorized motorcies and ammunition with ammunition. Among the ammunition were controlled missiles, "cumulative, fragmentation."

"What to do? You will not stop. There is an order"

According to Batomunkuyev, no one told where and why the military went, everyone understood everyone already. “They understood everything that we cross the border. And what to do? You will not stop. There is an order,” the young man explained. However, the military found out about where they got, only when they arrived: "We read that Donetsk. This is when you call into the city."

The Russian military asked not to communicate with civilians, explaining that "70 percent of the civilian population here is for dill." At the same time, according to the young man, he "killed dill" precisely for the sake of the civilian population: "I know that he fought for a just cause."

What to do specifically, they did not explain to the guys: "Here is the position of the closure of fire, we look there, we don’t let anyone out. Whoever goes - on the spot. Fire to defeat." Judging by the story of a young man, Russian soldiers fought not with the separatists, but instead of them. “When you need to go further than the enemy to squeeze, the militias refuse to go. They say: we won’t go there, it’s dangerous there. And we have an order to step on,” he complained.

It should be noted that the history of Batomunkuev coincides with the information that the media previously found out : those who can fight, but when the task is completed and this or that point is seized, they are sent to the rear, and local "militias" are sent to the fulfillment of combat missions. However, earlier the press indicated that contractors-military wrote applications for dismissal in order to go to the Donbass.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation admitted that she sent a contractor to Ukraine, said the mother of the military

Batomunkuev was wounded during a tank battle: a shell hit his fighting vehicle, and the tank caught fire. "I got out of the tank, fell from the tank - and let's smoke up to extinguish the fire ... Then the BMP arrived, the driver ran out:" Bro, brother, come here. "I look, he has a firefire red. He froze me." The young man was taken to Gorlovka, where they sent to intensive care, and then transported to Donetsk. “The operation is not yet done, because I will endure the road worse,” he explained.

The young man said that he has no complaints about the leadership of Russia, which sent him to Ukraine and made him "a load of 300". Commenting on the actions of the country's authorities, he noticed that they say to the whole world, there are supposedly no troops, although this is an obvious lie. Batomunkuev told how their company listened to the radio broadcast, in which the listeners - Russian soldiers in Ukraine - assured that the military from Russia in the Donbass was not.

“It used to be: the Soviet Union and America are two geopolitical relics. Then we are falling apart. Now we are rising again, they begin to spread rot again, but we will not be destroyed. But they will take the Donbass, turn, put it up, the missiles will fly to Russia in case of something,” the young soldier explained his position. And he said that during training after the call they were given the news on TV.

After a conversation with the journalist of the young man wounded in battle, and his comrades in misfortune were transported from Donetsk to the district military hospital 1602 (Rostov-on-Don, the military district). However, they were not listed in the lists of the reception department. At the same time, the mothers of the Russian soldier, according to her, confirmed that her son really is on the lists of fighters sent from this part to Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense promised to pay him treatment.

"Pskov paratroopers" and contractors from Murmansk

Earlier, journalists and human rights activists announced the presence of the military in Ukraine of the 76th airborne assault division, which allegedly participated in hostilities in the Donbass. It was reported that some paratroopers died during the fighting.

In August last year, the media even got images of freshly reduced graves. When the funeral attracted the attention of journalists, signs were removed from the graves, and the press officers were persecuted. Then the situation and the discovery of the living Russian military in Ukraine fueled: they stated that they got lost during the exercises. At the same time, the requests of human rights defenders about the causes of the death of soldiers in the military units were basically not responding .

The strange deaths of the Russian military from different units were also reported. Human rights activists also talked about the military in the Murmansk region, whom they also wanted to send to fight.

In Russia, information about the participation of the Russian military in the conflict has repeatedly denied: it was indicated that there were only volunteers in the Donbass from Russians. And the separatists boasted that among the volunteers there are many experienced ex-military ones. According to some reports, the Russians in the Donbass also receive a good salary . At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry called the participation of foreign volunteers in the conflict in the Donbass.

According to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Article 42 ), "a person who committed a deliberate crime in fulfillment of a deliberately illegal order or order, bears criminal liability on a common basis. The failure to fulfill the behaviorally illegal order or order eliminates criminal liability."