They will shoot in front, go on the back

Several Russian villages were filled with volunteers who came to the exercises before being sent to Ukraine. Local people are not happy

In several regions of Russia over the past weeks, volunteers are actively recruited to send them to the war with Ukraine. Volunteers are offered a high salary, and a little requirements for them are presented - you do not need either combat experience, or even a complete secondary education. The preparations of volunteer battalions are held at military training grounds. One of them is located in the Nizhny Novgorod village of Mulino, the other in the Orenburg village of Totskoy-2. Local residents complain that visiting soldiers are lying drunk on the streets, whistling after women and leaving behind the mountains of garbage. "Cold" talked with the inhabitants of these places and tells how they get along with the military.

The names of all heroes are changed .

"I am the mother of the boy who died, and I am rowing you"

The janitor Larisa Kuchin from the military town of Totsko-2 removes garbage in the central square every morning. A few days ago, she saw two non -named men on a bench. “I approached one. What are you, I say, you are sitting here, spitting - you can’t see an urn nearby? - says Kuchina. “And he answers to me: your work is to remove, and our work is to protect.” These men were volunteers who came to the exercises at the training ground located next to Totsky.

“I say:“ You’ll ssk, you, the defender is fucking! What are you boasting, which of you is the defender, if you are sitting here, guess? ”Remember Kuchina. She became very disappointing that "some kind of creature was sitting and boasting." She turned and went home for the Order of the courage, who was posthumously received by her son, who fought a contractor in Ukraine and died in the early days of the war.

“I took his medal. I come to this man, I say: “Look who protects the homeland here! Obviously not you! I am the mother of this boy who died, and I am rowing you! And I am not ashamed!” ”

Larisa Kuchina often occur recently in Larisa. Volunteers who do not sit in a military unit, but roam the village, she is not happy. “On some day, we even had no beer anywhere, everything was bought. And why, they paid money for 200 thousand and still pay every day, and they are all with money. You are not going from a good life. Well, you got that kind of money, you send to wives, children. And they supply shops here, ”she says.

According to her, volunteers constantly drink on benches, leaving behind the “entire meadow” of garbage: “We scoop up 10-15 bags of bottles with only area every morning.” Especially a lot of garbage, Kuchin says, the wipers scooped up from the streets of the village before the visit of Dmitry Medvedev, who flew to see how the military was being prepared at the training ground. Larisa Kuchina, unlike the Secretary of the Security Council, did not observe the exercises, but the opinion of the preparation of volunteers was: “I don’t know which of them are the defenders, if they are thumping during the day, and at night they go to shooting. What are the arrows from them? They will shoot in front, fart behind. ”

"It is necessary to somehow fence off these people"

Totskoy-2-a village in the Orenburg region, a little less than 15 thousand people live there. Next to it is a training grounding training ground. In recent weeks, this landfill from different regions of Russia is sent to undergo training volunteers who volunteered to fight with Ukraine.

Since June, in the regions of Russia, the authorities began to actively recruit volunteers to the so -called “personalized battalions”, concluding short -term contracts with them. The regional authorities are trying to offer such soldiers as favorable conditions as possible: in addition to the usual salary of contractors, they are promised 200-300 thousand rubles from the regional budget. There are few requirements for volunteers: the formation is enough, age is from 18 to 50, and in some places and up to 60 years. They also take those who were convicted of a conditional term if the criminal record has been repaid. Some battalions do not need combat experience.

To teach volunteers to fight, they are sent to training grounds. It is known that those who signed up for the Samara Battalion , the Alga battalion from Tatarstan and the Ulyanovsk battalions Simbirsk and Sviyaga are sent to the Totsky district.

Most men who live in Totsk-2 are the military. With the outbreak of war, they left for Ukraine - and many, like the son of Larisa Kuchina, did not return.

A few days ago, Kuchina, along with a partner, whose husband also left to fight, rested on a bench. A man of about fifty with a button phone in their hands approached them, asked if women want to eat and whether they know where in the village you can rent an apartment. Kuchina did not support him and went to work, losing their partner from sight. A few minutes later, a colleague caught up with her. “He says that this hell approached her. And he said: let's go, we’ll take the apartment, we’ll eat it! She is to him: I'll give you a broom for you now! And he: Come on, I am even more excited from this! I say: here, Irka, while the husband arrives from Ukraine, you will be fucked in the square, ”says Kuchina.

Kurchina is not ready to put up with the inconvenience that the soldiers deliver to the village: “No, well, you can’t stand it. This must be somehow prevented so that people do not suffer here! It is necessary to somehow fence off these people! Yes, indeed, they will protect us. Nevertheless, they do harm to others! Why did my son die, and I have to endure all this? ”

"They are called heroes and liberators - their plank leaves"

Not only in Totsko-2 have recently been transported volunteers. Some of them go to the Nizhny Novgorod village of Mulino, where one of the largest combat training centers in Russia is located. According to the Ukrainian military , it is in Mulino that the 3rd Army Corps, which the Russian authorities are now being created, is based; According to CIT , this building will consist of volunteers.

Mulino is also a small village: about 14 thousand people live there, and the majority are the military families. With the outbreak of war there was “there was a lull: our guys all left,” says a local resident, 33-year-old Tatyana Milashina, now-a housewife, and in the past-an employee of the power department. Therefore, when volunteers began to bring to Mulino, the inhabitants noticed immediately.

“There are many loafs,” Milashina explains what has changed in the usual life of the village. - We have been living here for so many years, we know everyone. And these go in heaps. Yesterday I walked along the street at nine o’clock in the evening, at the Pyaterochka one of theirs just stood and slept drunk. The other was asleep on the bench. Of course, it is noticeable that there are a lot of them - and they are resting a lot. ”

19-year-old Kristina Polorotova, who in early August came to her native Mulino to visit her relatives, says that she was “unpleasant” from the house. “I went on business at 11 in the morning - near the house two people were lying drunk, and a few more near the market sat drunk at the benches. They went out into the street at night - they whistled to us, shouted, tried to pay attention. It was definitely not the Muline, for 20 years of my life I have never seen someone lying drunk in the morning. We have a quiet village. ”

Polorotova says that he was not surprised that such people were taken as volunteers: "People are typed, apparently, for meat." Her husband is a former military man, some of her acquaintances died in Ukraine, and therefore she is “very negative” to hostilities: “I do not understand politics. I’m purely only [not like what is happening] because of [death] people. ”

Recently, in Mulino and in the neighboring village of Novosmolinsk, patrols were launched, which should follow the volunteers. Patrolmen, local residents say, are gaining from the same volunteers. “You understand: he is in a patrol today, and tomorrow he is with them in the barracks. It’s sometimes scary, inconvenient for him: he was getting together with someone, and tomorrow he will arrest him, ”says Igor Gaev, a resident of the Novosmolinsky village. He is a former military man, participated in hostilities in Syria. Shortly before the start of the war with Ukraine, his contract has expired, and he opened a business: engraving workshop.

This workshop stands right on the road, on which volunteers go from military unit to the store. Several times they looked at him to ask where to get drugs, Gaev claims. “These are people who saw the opportunity to earn the lowest layers of society. Naturally, when people are given such an opportunity, and even call them heroes and liberators, they leave the bar, ”he argues.

But all volunteers do not need to row under one comb, says Gaev: “There are adequate guys, not all - drinking. I talked with one: forty-fifty years old, he was tired of everything, I decided to unwind in this way. Someone goes for money. People are like people. "

However, Igor Gayev worries not so much the moral appearance of volunteers as the fact that they are taught to fight very shortly. “During my service, I myself was a commander - and they were not taught. Quite oak and wooden can be trained. From any monkey you can learn a worthy soldier. But you need to educate not a week. And now the person who lasted the machine for the last time on nine hundred with a shaggy year is sent immediately to war. ”

"Our guys will return from the war to this shit"

Now Igor Gaev is most afraid of how volunteers would not harm the children who live in the village: “Girls and children go past my workshop. And I contributed, I myself am father, it is scary for other people's children. ” Familiar women-especially those who work in the military units-also complained to him that volunteers "did not give them a passage, as if they had reached, by golly." “Their emotional state is as if they had been in a children's camp. A bunch of large children were gathered in one place, they sleep there, eat, and then look for entertainment and adventures, ”he adds.

There are, however, people who believe that the stories about the inconvenience caused by the residents of volunteers are exaggerated. “Suppose, they don’t care: they rest and rest, do not touch anyone. Personally, no one did anything to me and my friends, ”says Tatyana Milashina. As volunteers relate to local residents, it depends on the residents themselves, she believes: “We have such girls - they themselves are easily accessible and talk too much.”

Milashin also does not worry about how volunteers will behave at the front. “They will be there under the command, right. What command is here? And there they will be disposed of. They will be re -enchanted, ”she is sure.

Larisa Kuchina from the village of Totsko-2 with such condescension to the strangers is not ready. She believes that her son died in Ukraine not so that she "sit in mud and walk along the mud." “Our children would like, of course, for their parents and wives, so that we live normally, do not need anything. They wanted, while they were there in the war, we would wait for them in peace and peace. And now it turns out that we are cherished here. What should we take out for? Our guys will return from the war to this shit. And they will say-damn it, our whole town fucked up while we were there, some volunteers arrived. ”